For Immediate Release
October 12, 2005

Contact:
Elissa Free , (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff has appointed Nancy Chi Cantalupo as Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs. She succeeds Lisa Porcari, who served in that position for five years.

"Nancy already has an impressive history at Georgetown, as the founding director of the University's Women's Center and as an active participant in the Law Center’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic when she was a student,” Aleinikoff said. “She will be a great asset to our team and we are delighted to welcome her back to Georgetown."

In her new role, Cantalupo will assist Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Deborah Epstein, in administering Georgetown’s 13 clinics, which have long been ranked as the strongest in the nation. Cantalupo will also provide students with academic counseling related to clinical education, and oversee academic administration of the Law Center’s graduate clinical fellowship program and the LL.M (Advocacy) degree.

Cantalupo joins Georgetown from American University's Washington College of Law, where she combined her teaching and administration skills as Associate Director of the International Legal Studies Program. She also practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

Cantalupo holds two degrees from Georgetown: a B.S. in Foreign Service (magna cum laude) and a J.D. (cum laude) from the Law Center. She also worked at the University as the founding director of the Women’s Center, where she built the only office exclusively devoted to advocating for women, students, faculty and staff on issues such as violence against women, sex discrimination and women’s health.  As a law student, she participated in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, where she worked with a team of students, faculty and alumnae to conduct a fact-finding mission on domestic violence in Ghana.

She is an adjunct professor with the University's Women's Studies Program, teaching a course entitled, "Gender and Global Laws," and serves on the board of the National Women’s Alliance.

 

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