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 Stephen J. Ellmann
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for
Faculty Development and Collaborative Learning
Chair, Clinical Theory Workshops and Faculty Scholarship Luncheons
Cochair, South Africa Reading
Group
Coeditor, Clinical Research Institute and Editor, New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series
An award-winning author on legal ethics and an expert in clinical legal education, constitutional law, and South African law, Stephen J. Ellmann also pursues his deep interest in legal education through his work as Associate Dean for Faculty Development. Long interested in South Africa, he cochairs the Law School’s South Africa Reading Group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who focus on South Africa from a variety of perspectives.
Dean Ellmann earned the Sanford D. Levy Memorial Award from the New York State Bar Committee on Professional Ethics for an article “Lawyering for Justice in a Flawed Democracy,” 90 Columbia Law Review (1990). He has also authored a variety of works concerning human rights in South Africa, as well as America, including “The Rule of Law and the Achievement of Unanimity in Brown,” 49 New York Law School Law Review (2004–2005).
Dean Ellmann holds both a B.A. and J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard and served as Law Clerk to Hon. Elbert Tuttle, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth (now Eleventh) Circuit. Then, as a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, his practice included institutional reform litigation for mentally disabled people and prison inmates, voting rights cases, anti-Ku Klux Klan suits, and defense work in capital murder trials. While there, Dean Ellmann began a long career in legal education by teaching courses on constitutional law and federal courts.
In 1985, he started the Clinical Theory Workshops, first at Columbia, where he was Associate Professor of Law from 1983-1992, and then at New York Law School. The discussion series brings law professors from around the nation to present papers on various aspects of clinical education. The Clinical Theory Workshop met on April 1, 2005 at CUNY School of Law as part of a conference at which Dean Ellmann was honored for his 20 years chairing the Clinical Theory Workshop series. Since the September 11 attacks he has focused much of his work on issues of war and emergency power. He has written on racial profiling as a response to terrorism, and discussed NYC’s random subway searches on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. He is also preparing articles on war powers in South Africa's constitution and on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 decision that the government's system of military commission trials for enemy combatants was illegal.
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Contact information:
T: 212-431-2392
F: 212-431-1804
E: sellmann@nyls.edu
O: B304
Assistant: Ned Thimmayya
T: 212-431-2143
E: nthimmayya@nyls.edu
O: B309
Education:
Harvard, B.A. 1972 magna cum laude, J.D. 1976 magna cum laude (Law Review, Note Editor).
Law Clerk, Hon. Elbert Tuttle, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth (now Eleventh) Circuit.
Award-winning author on legal ethics and expert on human rights and South African law.
Courses:
Constitution and Socio-
Economic Rights
Constitutional
Development in South
Africa & the United
States
Constitutional Law I & II
Lawyering
Legal Profession
At New York Law School since 1992.
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