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Richard
H. Frankel
Associate
Professor of Law
Email: richard.h.frankel@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4807
Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 279
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Education
LL.M., with distinction, Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., summa cum laude, Yale College
Richard Frankel’s
chief scholarly interests concern issues of access to justice
in areas including consumer, administrative,
and immigration law.
Professor Frankel
comes to Drexel with stellar experience in clinical education,
having served as a teaching fellow and supervising
attorney for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate
Litigation Program. While there, he supervised students litigating
before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Fourth
Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as well as the Board of Immigration
Appeals. His clinical interests include consumer law, appellate
advocacy, landlord-tenant law, immigration law, public benefits,
civil rights and prisoners’ rights.
Previously, he was the Goldberg-Deitzler Fellow for Trial Lawyers
for Public Justice in Washington, D.C., where he litigated class-action
consumer protection and civil rights cases.
Professor Frankel’s publications include “Undue
Deference,” in Trial, “Proposition 209: A Stronger
Civil Rights Act?” in Yale Law & Policy Review and “Illusory
Arbitration Clauses,” (co-author) in The Employee Advocate.
A graduate of Yale
Law School, he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, articles
editor of Yale Law & Policy Review and student director of the Community Legal Services Clinic.
He clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Henry H. Kennedy
Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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