Adjunct Professor of Law; Director, Law Students in Court
B.A., Bard College; J.D., Antioch

Biography

Professor Brittingham is currently the Director of the Law Students in Court Clinic. Previously she was a clinical teaching fellow for the Center for Applied Legal Studies at the Law Center, assisting the clinic in creating a new human rights clinic at Georgetown. Professor Brittingham was in private practice, where her practice focused on representing individuals in deportation and exclusion proceedings, family and employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa processing, asylee/refugee and naturalization cases, and HIV and domestic violence waivers. As supervising staff attorney with AYUDA, Inc., Professor Brittingham's practice focused on immigration matters, landlord and tenant, consumer, and family cases. She was also an instructor in AYUDA's Paralegal Training Program. Professor Brittingham was a trainer with the D.C. Bar Public Service Activities Corporation, AIDS Advocacy Training, and a guest lecturer for the HIV Clinic, D.C. School of Law. She is currently vice president of the AYUDA Board of Directors and serves as a mentor attorney to the Whitman Walker Clinic legal services department. Professor Brittingham was a visiting professor and co-director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies in the 1997-98 academic year.