Stephen Loffredo

Stephen Loffredo 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 teaches in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, health law, and social welfare law and has written and spoken widely on the constitutional dimensions of economic rights and the role of wealth in a constitutional democracy. Read Stephen Loffredo's ful bio.