Managing Director, Climenko Fellowship and
Assistant Dean for Academic Career Advising

Susannah directs the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program and teaches a section in the program.

Joshua Braver’s research focuses on conflicting ideas of the people and its relationship to illegality in popular constitution-making.

Jacob Bronsther researches the theoretical foundations of criminal law and sentencing, and is a PhD candidate in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studies under the supervision of Nicola Lacey and Peter Ramsay.

Ryan Copus’s research focuses on the application of machine learning and analytics to judicial administration, court procedure, and evidence.

Gregory Elinson’s scholarship explores the political economy of law and legal institutions, with a particular emphasis on administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law.

Thomas Frampton studies criminal law and constitutional criminal procedure with a focus on how legal actors, institutions, and doctrines have responded, or failed to respond, to the dramatic expansion of the carceral state. He is interested in the intersections of criminal law, racial inequality, and social hierarchies.

Hedayat Heikal is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She recently completed a Doctorate of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) at Harvard Law School with a dissertation titled “Beyond Juristocracy: The Rise and Fall of Judicial Activism on National Identity Questions in the Middle East.”

Guha Krishnamurthi is primarily interested in the intersection of law and philosophy as applied to structural components of our legal system, such as the design of courts, the nature of adjudication, and the foundations of culpability.

Alexander Platt’s research focuses on Securities Litigation and Enforcement.

Blaine Saito researches issues within the area of taxation, with an emphasis on the intersection of tax rules, economics, tax administration, and social policy.

Peter Salib is interested in the ways in which new technologies — especially those associated with big data and machine learning — will transform our administration of fundamental legal institutions. He is particularly interested in the future of criminal enforcement and civil procedure as intelligent machines increasingly supplement and replace human actors. He maintains a secondary research interest in federal courts, particularly issues of judicial federalism.

Jennifer Sturiale’s research and scholarship focuses on issues of civil procedure, with a particular emphasis on issues relevant to intellectual property and antitrust law.

Sarah Winsberg’s research in legal history examines the process of making legal categories. Looking beyond the courtroom and the best remembered legal thinkers, she shows how long-forgotten writers’ and editors’ work in labeling and annotating cases produced gradual, yet ultimately profound, change in the law.

Carly Zubrzycki’s research focuses how powerful systems and institutions can be made more humane and responsive to the human experience, especially in the healthcare context.