Dori K. Bernstein

Dori Bernstein served for many years as an appellate litigator in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Professor Bernstein previously worked as a law clerk to then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as a staff attorney in the Office of the Chief Staff Counsel for the D.C. Circuit, and as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a graduate of New York University Law School and earned an LLM in Appellate Advocacy as a fellow in the Appellate Litigation Clinic at Georgetown Law.

In The News

September 25, 2020

"GU Law Center Celebrates Life, Legacy of Late Justice Ginsburg With Virtual Vigil," coverage in The Hoya, September 25, 2020, featuring Adjunct Professor Dori K. Bernstein, Adjunct Professor Mary Hartnett, Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary Nina Pillard, Professor Mitt Regan, Dean William M. Treanor, Professor Emerita Wendy Webster Williams, and Judge M. Margaret McKeown (LAW ’75).

July 17, 2016

"Election to shape Supreme Court," coverage in The Hill, July 17, 2016, quoting Adjunct Professor Dori Bernstein, director, Supreme Court Institute.

March 7, 2016

"UI grad's colleagues say she's supremely qualified to succeed Scalia," coverage by The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL), March 7, 2016, featuring Adjunct Professor Patricia Millett and quoting Professor Steven Goldblatt (L'70) and Adjunct Professor Dori Bernstein (LL.M.'89).

November 2, 2015

“Jones Day Adds Record Class of SCOTUS Clerks,” coverage by Bloomberg Big Law Business, November 2, 2015, quoting Adjunct Professor Dori K. Bernstein.