| Stephen Loffredo
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4373
Office
335C
Stephen Loffredo, Professor, earned his undergraduate degree from Yale,
his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court
before entering practice at the Legal Aid Society in the South Bronx, where he
provided neighborhood legal services and conducted test case litigation. He has
litigated many path-breaking law reform cases, including actions that secured
the right of homeless families in New York to safe and adequate shelter,
established the right of single homeless shelter residents to public assistance
and Medicaid, and vindicated the statutory entitlement of disabled New Yorkers
to federal benefits worth over $100 million annually. He has continued to
represent poor people through the Law School's clinical program and as pro bono
counsel to the Urban Justice Center. He has written and spoken widely on the
constitutional dimensions of economic rights and the role of wealth in a
constitutional democracy.
He is co-author of The Rights of the
Poor with his wife, Helen Hershkoff, and served as consultant to the late
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone on the constitutional aspects of federal welfare
legislation. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law,
health law, and social welfare law, and has co-directed the Immigrant and
Refugee Rights Clinic and the Workfare Advocacy Project Seminar/Economic Justice
Clinic, which received the Pro Bono Service Award of the New York State Bar
Association in 2002 and the Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for
Excellence in 2004.
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