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Heidi Gilchrist is a Professor of Legal Writing and Co-Director of the Legal Research and Writing program at Brooklyn Law School, where she has been a faculty member since fall 2015. She teaches the Social Justice Gateway of Legal Writing and a seminar on National Security & Human Rights.
Her educational background includes a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and an Articles/Submissions Editor at the Journal of Transnational Law. After Yale, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Arabic literature and Islamic law in Damascus, Syria.
Professor Gilchrist’s research focuses on national security law and its intersection with civil rights and human rights. Her work appears in major law reviews and public legal commentary platforms such as The Washington Post, Just Security, and Jurist. She has written extensively on universal jurisdiction, security clearance procedures, higher education as a human right, and the legal treatment of terrorism-related offenses.
Her recent publications reflect a strong trend toward interdisciplinary legal scholarship, combining international law, human rights, and national security with procedural and evidentiary issues in both civil and criminal contexts. Themes of justice, equity, and legal accountability recur across her work.
- Fulbright Scholarship to study Arabic literature and Islamic law in Damascus, Syria
- Kent Scholar at Columbia Law School
Before entering academia, Professor Gilchrist served as an analyst at the CIA and as a liaison to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City. She also practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, focusing on securities and international law, and clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson in the Southern District of New York. She is proficient in Arabic, Italian, and French. She has advised on legal writing pedagogy and scholarship development, though no formal advisees are listed. She has contributed to legal treatises on electronic evidence and privacy law.
She is actively engaged in the Legal Writing Program at Brooklyn Law School, contributing to curriculum development and student mentorship in foundational legal skills.
