Professor Susan Waysdorf

A.B. University of Chicago, 1972; J.D. University of Maryland Law School, 1991.

Professor Waysdorf, who teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Family Law and Prisoner's Rights, attended law school after working for a number of years in community education, women's equality, prisoner's rights, the movement to free political prisoners in the United States and for other causes addressing access to justice and equality under law.

Susan Waysdorf with clinic students After graduating from law school, Professor Waysdorf was awarded a Public Interest Fellowship from the Skadden Arps Foundation, which supported her work as a staff attorney for the Whitman-Walker Clinic's Legal Services Department in Washington. She was founder and director of the former Prisoner's Rights and Advocacy Clinic at UDC-DCSL and co-directed the HIV/AIDS-Public Entitlements Clinic. She publishes, lectures and consults on the AIDS epidemic, on the rights of women and patients with AIDS, on access to health care for the poor, on prisoner's rights and civil rights.

Contact
Telephone: (202) 274-7330
E-mail: swaysdorf@udc.edu