Irene M. Scharf
Professor of Law and
Dean for Clinical Programs
J.D. Suffolk University Law School
B.A. The University of Albany
Professor Scharf engaged in private practice for several years and then was counsel to administrative agencies at the local and state levels, including the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission. She has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General (Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tobacco Litigation), and is a trained mediator in tort law and domestic relations, as well as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Professor Scharf has taught at the State University of New York, the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University), Boston University Law School, and at the Institute on International and Comparative Law of the University of San Diego Law School.
Professor Scharf is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars. She teaches Torts and directs the Immigration Law Clinic, and has also taught Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and the Field Placement Programs. She serves as the Dean for Clinical Studies. Professor Scharf is co-author of a comprehensive 3-volume work, part of the WASHINGTON PRACTICE SERIES, (also in CD-ROM). Her publications include: Nourishing Justice and the Continuum: Implementing a Blended Model in an Immigration Law Clinic, 12 CLINICAL L. REV. 346 (2005); Kosovo’s War Victims: Civil Compensation or Criminal Prosecution For Victims of Identity Elimination?, 14 EMORY INT’L L. REV. 1415 (2000); Tired of your Masses: A History of and Judicial Responses to Early 20th Century Anti-Immigrant Legislation, 21 HAWAII L. REV. 131 (1999); Commentary on United States v. Balbas, 3:17 BENDER’S IMMIGRATION BULLETIN 886 (Sept. 1998); Commentary on Anderson v. Conboy, 3:21 BENDER’S IMMIGRATION BULLETIN 1102 (Nov. 1998); Breathe Deeply: The Tort of Smokers’ Battery, 32 HOUSTON L. REV. 615 (1995) (an abbreviated version appeared in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 1996); Preemption by Fiat: The Department of Labor’s Usurpation of Power over Noncitizen Workers’ Right to Unemployment Benefits, 56 ALBANY L. REV. 561 (1993), and What Process is Due? Unaccompanied Minors’ Rights to Deportation Hearings, 1988 DUKE L.J. 114 (1988) (co-author). She recently completed a short consumer-rights book on immigration law (A Peoples’ Guide to U.S. Immigration Law), and has written articles in the local press (lay and legal) on both cross-cultural learning and consumer financial protection. She has led workshops at various professional conferences, served as conference moderator, and is currently an active member and blog author in a nationwide movement of law professors who are encouraging use of “Best Practices” in legal education.
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