Laura Klein Abel

Laura Klein Abel

Deputy Director, Justice Program

Laura K. Abel is Deputy Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she has worked since 1999. Her work is aimed at enhancing the ability of low-income families and individuals to obtain legal counsel and access to the courts, and at securing the freedom of nonprofit organizations to exercise their First Amendment rights in the course of assisting low-income communities. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Abel was a Gibbons Fellow at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. where she litigated on behalf of low-income people in a wide variety of cases. In preceding years, she was a staff attorney fellow for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project and clerked for Judge Robert Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Abel received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994.

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"The Price of Rushing Regulatory Reform", politico.com (06/19/08)
"Another Example of Shoddy Legal Reasoning" [pdf], New York Law Journal (03/13/08)
"Lawyers for the Poor Muzzled in Subprime Mess", in Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover (Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed. 2009); also published on thenation.com (01/16/08) and in Management Information Exchange Journal (Fall 2008)
"Make "You Have a Right to a Lawyer" a Reality in Housing Court", Tenant Inquilino (March 2005) 
"White House Takes Opposing Views on Charities" [pdf], Chronicle on Philanthropy (02/20/03) 
"Drawing Lines for Dollars: Scientists Get Federal and Private Funding Under One Roof. Why Can't Legal Aid Lawyers?" [pdf], Legal Times, (09/02/02) 
Laura K. Abel & Kimani Paul-Emille, Op Ed: "How They'd Deny Virginia's Poor", Washington Post, (05/15/00)
Laura K. Abel & Philip G. Gallagher, "No Money for the Voiceless", National Law Journal, (12/20/99)

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