Daniel Nagin
Clinical Professor of Law Faculty Director, WilmerHale Legal Services Center & Veterans Legal Clinic
Daniel Nagin is Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, a community-based public interest law firm home to six Harvard Law School civil practice clinics. He is also Faculty Director of the Legal Service Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic, which he founded in 2012. From 2015-2021, he served as the Law School’s inaugural Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education. His teaching and research interests focus on clinical education, social welfare law and policy, veterans law and policy, and delivery of legal services. His scholarship on veterans law has been cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Previously, Nagin was on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he founded and directed a public benefits clinic and taught anti-poverty law courses. Nagin has also taught in the clinical program at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, directed a social service and legal advocacy program for unhoused New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, worked as a legal services attorney in Jamaica, Queens, and co-led a legal services program for the unhoused in Indianapolis.
Among his recognitions, Nagin is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, received the John G. Brooks Legal Services Award from the Boston Bar Association, and received the Access to Equal Justice Award from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Nagin’s recent activities have included serving on the Amicus Committee of the Boston Bar Association, the Executive Committee of the Section on Poverty Law of the American Association of Law Schools, and the Judicial Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
He holds a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University, an M.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the recipient of the Edwin F. Mandel Award.
Representative Publications
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Daniel L. Nagin, The Credibility Trap: Notes on a VA Evidentiary Standard, 45 Memphis L. Rev. 887 (2015). -
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Daniel L. Nagin, Goals v. Deadlines: Notes on the VA Backlog, 10 U. Mass. L. Rev. 50 (2015).
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Recent Publications
- Margaret Kuzma, Dana Montalto, Elizabeth Gwin & Daniel Nagin, Military Discharge Upgrade: Legal Practice Manual (American Bar Association 2021).
- Daniel L. Nagin, On Clinical Legal Education, Practice (Special Issue) (2020).
- Daniel L. Nagin, Repeat Performances and Learning by Transfer, 19 Law Tchr. 6 (2012).