Jeffrey Selbin

Jeffrey Selbin is the Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Policy Advocacy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He founded the Policy Advocacy Clinic in 2012 as an interdisciplinary program for law and public policy students, focusing on community-led racial and economic justice campaigns. His work spans clinical legal education, anti-poverty initiatives, and criminal justice reform.

Education:

• B.A., University of Michigan (1983, high distinction and high honors)
• C.E.P., L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1986, mention assez bien)
• J.D., Harvard University (1989, cum laude)

Research and Advocacy: Selbin's scholarship employs empirical methods to examine clinical education and anti-poverty lawyering. At Berkeley, he served as co-faculty director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice and faculty director of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), where he founded the HIV/AIDS Law Project as a Skadden Fellow and later became its Executive Director.

Leadership and Recognition:

• Chaired Poverty Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
• Founding board member of the Fines and Fees Justice Center
• Visiting clinical professor at Yale Law School
• Visiting scholar at NYU School of Law
• Received the Society of American Law Teachers Great Teacher Award (2018)
• U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Community Engaged Teaching (2018)
• Recognized as Northern California Super Lawyer multiple times