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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Erik Pitchal |
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
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Erik Pitchal joined the Suffolk faculty in 2007-08 and teaches the Child Advocacy Clinic and Family Law. Before coming to Suffolk, Professor Pitchal was the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Family and Child Advocacy at Fordham University in New York, where he also taught Children and the Law and Family Law. Professor Pitchal was previously an attorney on the staff of Children's Rights in New York City, where he conducted class litigation on behalf of foster children in multiple jurisdictions. He has also been employed as a staff attorney within the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York. He is a former law clerk for U.S District Court Judge Robert P. Patterson of the Southern District of New York. In 2005, he was named Child Advocate of the Year by the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division. Professor Pitchal is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
Degrees:
BA, Brown University; JD Yale University
Bar Admittance:
MA; NY
Professional Activities:
ABA Bar-Youth Empowerment Project: national advisory board member. Massachusetts Task Force on Youth Aging Out of DSS Custody: legal committee chair.
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Thickening the Safety Net: Key Elements to Successful Independent Living Programs for Young Adults Aging out of Foster Care, 23 ST. JOHN'S J. LEGAL COMMENT. 447 (2008)
Preparing Our Kids for Education Work and Life, Massachusetts Task Force on Youth Aging Out of DSS Care (2008) (Co-author)
Where Are All the Children? Increasing Youth Participation in Dependency Proceedings, 12 J. JUV. L. & POL'Y 233 (2008)
Michael's Corriero's Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System, 9 BARRY L. REV. 171 (2007) (book review)
Family Values: How Children's Lawyers Can Help Their Clients by Advocating for Parents, 58 JUV. & FAM. CT. J. 17 (2007)
Children's Constitutional Right to Counsel in Dependency Cases, 15 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 663 (2006)
Buzz in the Brain and Humility in the Heart: Doing It All, Without Doing Too Much, on Behalf of Children, 6 NEV. L.J. 1350 (2006)
The battle over pop singer Michael Jackson's children is just beginning., 07/06/09. NECN Sidebar Series
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Prof. Erik Pitchal
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont St.
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Boston, MA 02108
t. 617.305-1641
f. 617-742-2139
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