Associate Professor of Legal Analysis and Writing

• Legal Analysis and Writing
• Public Interest Lawyering: Theory and Practice Seminar

Aliza Kaplan teaches Legal Analysis and Writing and a seminar in Public Interest Lawyering.  She regularly consults on wrongful convictions cases and represents asylum seekers.  She is also a documentary film producer — the 2007 film she co-produced, My Country, My Country, was nominated for an Academy Award, and her most recent documentary film, The Oath, was nominated for two news Emmy Awards.

Prior to teaching at Lewis & Clark, Kaplan was an Associate Professor of Legal Skills at Brooklyn Law School.  She was also the Deputy Director of the national Innocence Project, an organization that represents prison inmates in their efforts to obtain DNA testing to prove their innocence, and co-founded the New England Innocence Project.  She was an associate at Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Kaplan gives presentations and writes in the area of Lawyering Skills, Wrongful Convictions/Innocence Projects, Asylum Law, and Public Interest Lawyering.