Since 1993, Reginald F. Lewis Fellows have gone on to amazing careers in the legal academy. Among the alumni and alumnae of the program are tenured professors at the top law schools in the United States. The following table provides detailed information about the current work of former fellows.
2024-2025 Reginald F. Lewis Fellow
SAÚL RAMÍREZ
Saúl Ramírez is the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School. He researches questions at the intersection of law and sociology, race and ethnicity, and crime and immigration (crimmigration). His current projects draw on his qualitative data to scrutinize a socio-legal puzzle—the incongruity between the hegemonic jurisprudence on deportations in the United States as a legal issue compared to its modern-day social realities—by, inter alia, juxtaposing incarceration’s collateral consequences and deportation’s ramifications to investigate whether and, if so, how deportation is punishment; and, consequently, underscore why immigrants’ repertoire of constitutional safeguards during removal proceedings ought to mirror the legal protections available in criminal court. His teaching interests include legal and social theory, race and the law, criminal law, and immigration law.
Saúl received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he double-majored in Chicano Studies and Ethnic Studies and double-minored in Education and Global Poverty and Practice. He earned High Honors, a Distinction in General Scholarship, and the Ethnic Studies Departmental Citation. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he earned the C. LaRue Munson Prize for his advocacy in criminal and immigrant defense clinics. He holds an A.M. in Sociology from Harvard University. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship supported him during graduate school. His scholarship has received funding from the Russel Sage Foundation and Harvard grants and fellowships from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for American Political Studies, the Center for Population and Development Studies, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard (ABD), and his doctoral dissertation is titled Assimilation Pathways, Deportation Effects, and American Identity. Most recently, he was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School.
| LEWIS FELLOW | FELLOWSHIP YEAR(S) | CURRENT POSITION |
| Hassaan Shahawy | 2023-2024 | Law Clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. United States Supreme Court |
| Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana | 2022-2023 | Assistant Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Chika Okafor | 2021-2022 | Academic Fellow in Law and Political Economy Harvard Law School |
| Zahra Takhshid | 2019-2021 | Assistant Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
| Nikolas Bowie | 2017-2018 | Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Duane Rudolph | 2015-2017 | Associate Professor of Law University of San Francisco School of Law |
| K. Sabeel Rahman | 2012-2014 | Associate Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School |
| Abbye J. Atkinson | 2009-2010 | Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law |
| Vincent Chiao | 2008-2010 | Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Chair University of Richmond School of Law |
| Eleanor Marie Brown | 2007-2009 | Professor of Law and International Affairs Penn State Law |
| Hilary C. Robinson | 2006-2007 | Associate Professor of Law and Sociology Northeastern University School of Law |
| Angela M. Banks | 2004-2006 | Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| Timothy William Waters | 2003-2004 | Professor of Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow Indiana University Maurer School of Law |
| Gavin Clarkson | 2002-2003 | Owner/Managing Director Native American Capital |
| Cristina M. Rodríguez | 2001-2002 | Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Yale Law School |
| Laura Nyantung Beny | 2000-2001 | Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School |
| Stephen M. Rich | 2000-2001 | Maurice Jones, Jr. – Class of 1925 Professor of Law University of Southern California School of Law |
| Kenneth W. Mack | 1999-2000 | Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Lino Mendiola, III | 1998-1999 | Partner, Co-Head of Global Energy Eversheds-Sutherland, LLP |
| Marc Spindelman | 1997-1998 | Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law Ohio State University Moritz College of Law |
| Ralph Richard Banks | 1996-1997 | Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law Stanford Law School |
| Alexa J. Smith | 1995-1996 | Director of Major Gifts NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. |
| Sydney Patel | 1994-1995 | |
| Richard Thompson Ford (Inaugural Lewis Fellow) | 1993-1994 | George E. Osborn Professor of Law Stanford Law School |