Todd Venook

Todd Venook is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Todd’s research focuses on high-volume adjudication and access to justice. His work examines two behemoths of the American civil legal system—“lawyerless” state courtrooms and multidistrict litigation—to assess how courts manage crowded dockets, dispense mass justice, and get things done. His scholarship is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.

Most recently, Todd worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice. He has also worked and taught at Stanford Law School, where he co-led a new course on access to justice and legal ethics. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Myron H. Thompson in the Middle District of Alabama. 

Todd holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College.