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Eduardo Capulong

Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education; Professor of Law, University of Montana

Professor Eduardo Capulong directs the clinical program and oversees the School's experiential offerings. He is also director of the in-house Mediation Clinic and teaches Lawyering Fundamentals: Theory & Practice, Advanced Mediation, Mediation Advocacy, Law and Social Justice, and Race, Racism, and American Law.

Prior to joining the University of Montana, Professor Capulong was a lawyering professor at New York University, and public interest, public policy, and externship programs director and lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he taught public interest lawyering and community organizing. At the University of Montana, he has been the recipient of the Poore Faculty Service Award, Brown Faculty Merit Award, and Brown Faculty Scholarship Award. From 2014-2015, Professor Capulong was a visiting scholar at Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Derecho, in Granada, Spain. He holds a law degree from the City University of New York, where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Scholar and Davis-Putter Fellow, and a bachelor's degree in political science and journalism from NYU.

Prior to teaching, Professor Capulong practiced civil rights, poverty, immigration, and labor law and policy. He has worked as a litigator, policy analyst, and community organizer for various nonprofits, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Community Service Society, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, Chinese Staff and Workers' Association, and Public Interest Law Center (Manila, Philippines). He was the former Karpatkin Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union and Pro Se Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Professor Capulong is a past co-chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education. He has also served on the boards of the Montana ACLU, Society of American Law Teachers, National Lawyers Guild, International Endowment for Democracy, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. He is a member of the bars of the states of New York, New Jersey, and Montana, where he sits on the Dispute Resolution Committee.

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    Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education; Professor of Law, The University of Montana