The Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows Program recognizes exemplary members of the bar who engage in public service. The program, founded in 1990 defines public service as "law-related work for governmental agencies, legal services providers, prosecutors, public defenders, private public interest law firms, nonprofit organizations and international organizations that provide legal assistance, conduct research, or engage in other activities aimed at advancing the common good." Academics and judges are ineligible for nomination (although they may go on to those roles). Fellows are invited to

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

to interact with students. *

Shara L. Aranoff Shara L. Aranoff was the Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission from 2005 to 2014. Aranoff was nominated to the Commission by President George W. Bush on April 27, 2005 for the term ending December 16, 2012. Her nomination was confirm ...

Spencer Boyer Spencer Phipps Boyer is an American foreign policy, national security, and international law and relations expert who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO in the Biden administration. Previously, Boyer served in t ...

Denise J. Casper Denise Jefferson Casper (born January 9, 1968) is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She used to be the Deputy District Attorney for the Middlesex ...

United States District Judge Massachusetts *

Brian Concannon Brian Concannon, Jr. (born November 18, 1963) is a human rights lawyer and foreign policy advocate. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which he co-founded in 2004. Concannon also serves as a mem ...

Paul J. Fishman Paul J. Fishman (born February 26, 1957) is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2009 to 2017. Early life and education Fishman was born on February 26, 1957, in New York City to a Jewish famil ...

United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey *

Andrew Fois Andrew Fois (born June 16, 1958) is an attorney who serves as the chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States since 2022. He served as the deputy attorney general for public safety in the Office of the Attorney General in Washingt ...

* Terry Goddard * Edmund V. Ludwig Federal District Judge *

John A. Powell John A. Powell (born 1947) is an African-American law professor. He leads the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute (formerly known as Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity ...

* Pierre-Richard Prosper *

Jonathan Rapping Jonathan A. Rapping is an American criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, and visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Rapping received the MacArthu ...

a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award *

Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay Rosenstein (; born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019. Prior to his appointment, he served as a United States attorney for the District ...

Deputy Attorney General of the United States *

Reggie Shuford Reginald "Reggie" T. Shuford is a Philadelphia-based lawyer and executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Early life and education Shuford grew up in public housing in Wilmington, North Carolina, the third of five children. Shuford earn ...

* James E. Tierney *

Leslie Winner Leslie J. Winner is a North Carolina attorney and former executive director of the Winston-Salem-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. At the time of her selection to succeed Thomas W. Ross at the foundation, Winner was general counsel and vice pre ...

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{{reflist Awards established in 1990 Wasserstein Fellowship

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