Dehlia umunna biography

Dehlia Victoria Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) at Harvard Law School.
Dehlia Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), and the Faculty Deputy Director of the law school's Criminal Justice Institute (CJI).
Dehlia Victoria Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School.

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Professor Dehlia Umunna on Making Your Life Count for Good

Each year, Roxbury Latin begins the last school day before the Thanksgiving break with a tradition that is distinctly RL. Thanksgiving Exercises are an opportunity to, as Headmaster Brennan says, “turn our heads and hearts to the proposition of gratitude—for the country in which we live, for the freedoms and opportunities that are guaranteed by our being Americans, for our families and friends, for this community and others, for intelligence and discernment and deep feeling. For our gifts and aspirations, for good sense and hoped-for-dreams. Indeed we should live with an attitude of gratitude.”

This year, given the pandemic’s realities, Thanksgiving Exercises took place virtually, as students, faculty, and staff enjoyed pre-recorded renditions of the traditional hymns We Gather Together, For the Splendor of Creation, and America the Beautiful. The Hall featured the resonant Litany of Thanksgiving—which includes a boy from each class—reminding us all of our “blessings manifold.” “The only thing wrong with Thanks

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Dehlia Umunna, deputy director, and clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) is the first Nigerian to be appointed as a professor at the school. Umunna has been appointed Clinical Professor of Law.

Umunna has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School since 2007. She authored the article, Rethinking the Neighborhood Watch: How Lessons from the Nigerian Village Can Creatively Empower the Community to Assist Poor, Single Mothers in America, which was published in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.

As the Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School’s CJI, Umunna oversees third-year law students in their representation of adult and juvenile clients in criminal and juvenile proceedings and arguments before Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals court, Harvard Law Today reports.

“I am blessed and honored to join Harvard Law School’s remarkable faculty,” Umunna was quoted as saying. “I relish this extraordinary opportunity to

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Dehlia Umunna

Dehlia Victoria Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) at Harvard Law School.^[1] Professor Umunna is a nationally renowned expert on criminal law, criminal defense and theory, mass incarceration, and race issues.

Early life

Umunna was born in London, England, in 1973 to a Nigerian father and a Sierra Leonean mother, and she grew up in Nigeria. She has two brothers.^[2]

Education

Umunna received her BA in Communications from The California State University, San Bernardino, in 1995. She received her JD from George Washington University Law School in 1998, where she was awarded the J.B. Shapiro Prize for Public Interest, and her Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2011.^[3]

Career

After graduating from law school, Umunna joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she represented hundreds of indigent juveniles and adults. In 2002, she became a Practitioner in Residence at American University's Was