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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Safe Harbor Project
Sayed’s scholarship focuses on how immigration law intersects with criminal and national security law and explores how the law can protect vulnerable immigrant populations while still achieving other desired policy outcomes.
Sayed, who previously served as a visiting professor at the Law School, began her academic career as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney at the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Previously, she was a staff attorney at the New York Legal Assistance Group, an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at Sanctuary for Families, and a Kirkland & Ellis New York City Public Service Fellow at Her Justice. She also served as a refugee officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and as law clerk for U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood for the Southern District of New York.
Assistant Professor of Academic Success
Brown teaches courses and workshops designed to sharpen students’ legal analytical skills, enhance their academic experience, and prepare them for the bar examination and real-world practice.
Brown joins the program as a full-time member after previously serving as a small group instructor and an adjunct professor. Prior to her academic career, Brown was an assistant corporation counsel for the New York City Office of the Corporation Counsel and a fellow for the New York City Police Department.
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
Holzer joins the Law School’s nationally ranked legal writing program after serving as a visiting professor since 2017. She also teaches in the Law School’s externship program and academic success program. Her scholarship interests relate to legal education pedagogy with a focus on equity and accessibility.
Before joining the Law School faculty, Holzer was a visiting assistant professor of legal writing at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She has practiced as a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell and as staff attorney in the Public Policy Litigation & Law Department at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
Ten Cate’s research focuses on features of, and values promoted by, adjudication in court systems and in international arbitration, as well as legal reasoning, effective teaching of legal writing, and the legal academy.
Ten Cate serves on the editorial boards of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and the Legal Writing Institute’s monograph series. She most recently practiced law in Jenner & Block’s commercial litigation and international arbitration practice.
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
Tully previously taught at Suffolk University School of Law and Northeastern University School of Law. In addition, she was a clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Seton Hall. Her recent article “The Cultural (Re)Turn: The Case for Teaching Culturally Responsive Lawyering,” 16 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 201 (2020), was selected for the Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section’s Newer Scholars’ Showcase at the 2021 meeting of the American Association of Law Schools.
Before entering academia, Tully worked in public interest law both domestically and internationally and clerked for U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby for the District of Maine.