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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.

Previous Lewis Fellows:

LEWIS FELLOWFELLOWSHIP YEAR(S)CURRENT POSITION
Hassaan Shahawy2023-2024Law Clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr.
United States Supreme Court
Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana2022-2023Assistant Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Chika Okafor2021-2022Academic Fellow in Law and Political Economy
Harvard Law School
Zahra Takhshid2019-2021Assistant Professor of Law
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Nikolas Bowie2017-2018Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Duane Rudolph2015-2017Associate Professor of Law
University of San Francisco School of Law
K. Sabeel Rahman2012-2014Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Abbye J. Atkinson2009-2010Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Vincent Chiao2008-2010Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Chair
University of Richmond School of Law
Eleanor Marie Brown2007-2009Affiliate Professor of Rock Ethics
Penn State Law
Hilary C. Robinson2006-2007Associate Professor of Law and Sociology
Northeastern University School of Law
Angela M. Banks2004-2006Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Timothy William Waters2003-2004Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Gavin Clarkson2002-2003Owner/Managing Director
Native American Capital
Cristina M. Rodríguez2001-2002Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Laura Nyantung Beny2000-2001Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Stephen M. Rich2000-2001Maurice Jones, Jr. – Class of 1925 Professor of Law
University of Southern California School of Law
Kenneth W. Mack1999-2000Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Lino Mendiola, III1998-1999Partner, Co-Head of Global Energy
Eversheds-Sutherland, LLP
Marc Spindelman1997-1998Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Ralph Richard Banks1996-1997Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Alexa J. Smith1995-1996Director of Major Gifts
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Sydney Patel1994-1995
Richard Thompson Ford
(Inaugural Lewis Fellow)
1993-1994George E. Osborn Professor of Law
Stanford Law School