Nancy Chi Cantalupo

Dean Cantalupo is responsible for administrative supervision of the J.D. clinical program, and student academic counseling related to clinical education and the J.D. program as a whole. She is also responsible for the academic administration of the Law Center's graduate clinical fellowship program and the LL.M. (Advocacy) degree. Prior to coming to Law Center, she combined teaching and administration as Associate Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University’s Washington College of Law. She also practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Before and while getting her Juris Doctorate degree, Dean Cantalupo was the founding director of the Georgetown University Women's Center, where she built the only university office exclusively devoted to advocating for women students, faculty and staff on issues such as violence against women, sex discrimination, and women’s health.  In addition to teaching the summer experiential learning course, Rule of Law Promotion & Civil Society in China, she has taught in the Georgetown University Women’s and Gender Studies Program and at George Washington University Law School.   She has served on the board of the Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project and chaired the board of D.C. Law Students in Court from 2007-2010.  Her publications include Campus Violence: Understanding the Extraordinary through the Ordinary, 35 J.C. & U.L. 613 (2009) and Domestic Violence in Ghana: The Open Secret, Geo. J. Gender & L., 531-598 (2006) (co-authored with Lisa Vollendorf Martin, Kay Pak and Sue Shin).