| Angela Burton
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4179
Office
335D
Angela Burton, Interim Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law, joined the Law School faculty after
five years as Director of the Children's Rights and Family Law Clinic at
Syracuse University College of Law and several years teaching first-year
lawyering at NYU School of Law. She teaches first-year Lawyering Seminar, Law
and Family Relations, and seminars addressing children's rights.
Professor Burton received her J.D. from NYU School of Law and her B.S.
from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her varied
work life has included stints as an aspiring actress and legal secretary, in
addition to being a staff attorney on the Permanent Judicial Commission on
Justice for Children, an associate counsel on the Clinton Presidential
Transition Team and at the private firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, and senior
planner at the Vera Institute of Justice.
Among other professional
affiliations, she is a member of the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law
Review, the Executive Board of the Clinical Legal Education Association, and
Workways, a multidisciplinary group of educators and practitioners devoted to
developing and assessing innovative approaches to legal education. The co-author
of the NYU Law Review` article "Hey! There's Ladies Here!!: Reflections
on Becoming Gentlemen," describing the effects of women's presence in law
school, she has a forthcoming article in the Clinical Law Review
discussing the application of multiple intelligences theory in legal education.
She has made many presentations on legal education and on issues involving
children and families.
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