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Susan Hazeldean serves as Associate Dean of Experiential Education, Professor of Law, and Director of the LGBT Advocacy Clinic at Brooklyn Law School, a position she assumed effective July 1, 2023. Her career bridges academia, clinical practice, and public interest advocacy with a focus on systemic inequities affecting marginalized communities.
Her educational credentials include:
- J.D. from Yale Law School
- B.A. from the University of North Carolina
Hazeldean's research interrogates the collision points between civil rights, family structures, immigration systems, and LGBTQ+ identities. She pioneers scholarship on non-traditional family formations, asylum claims for sexual minorities, and the weaponization of privacy doctrines against queer communities. Her work consistently centers lived experiences of low-income LGBTQ+ individuals while challenging legal frameworks that perpetuate discrimination.
Her publication trajectory reveals evolving legal battlegrounds—from early analyses of same-sex immigration barriers (2002-2003) to contemporary examinations of parental rights in post-marriage equality America (2017-2022). Recurring themes include intersectional vulnerability of youth, state surveillance of queer families, and strategic litigation to expand civil rights protections across immigration, criminal justice, and family law contexts.
Her major recognitions include:
- AALS Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Section Excellence in LGBTQ+ Inclusion Award (2020)
- Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Award from National LGBT Bar Association (2015)
- Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship
Through the LGBT Advocacy Clinic, Hazeldean trains students in high-impact representation of low-income LGBTQ+ clients across prisoners' rights, family law, immigration, and anti-discrimination cases. Her clinical model merges direct service with systemic advocacy, securing critical legal protections while developing the next generation of public interest lawyers. The clinic operates as both teaching laboratory and community resource, leveraging student-faculty teams to address urgent unmet legal needs.
The clinic functions as Hazeldean's primary operational hub, integrating law students into multidisciplinary advocacy teams that collaborate with social service providers and community organizations to dismantle structural barriers facing LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.
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