This fall, Northwestern Pritzker Law welcomed a number of outstanding faculty hires: Professors Molly Brownfield, Kristina DeGuzman, Monica Haymond, Kara Ingelhart, Andrea Lewis Hartung, Priyanka Motaparthy, Eric Sirota, and our inaugural Marti Family Fellow Priyanka Goonetilleke. Their scholarship and teaching has already made an enormous impact on our community. The Law School is already in the midst of recruiting for Fall 2025 and is thrilled to provide the update that Professors Myriam Gilles and Jill Horwitz will join our community this coming academic year.
Professor Myriam Gilles will join Northwestern Pritzker Law faculty in the 2025-2026 academic year. She is currently on the faculty at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she holds the Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair and served as Vice Dean from 2016-2018. Professor Gilles specializes in class actions and aggregate litigation and has written extensively on forced arbitration clauses. Professor Gilles also writes on civil rights and structural reform litigation, medical malpractice, access to justice and tort law. She currently serves on the boards of the Justice Resource Center and Public Justice, on the board of advisors of the People’s Parity Project, as an Academic Fellow of the Pound Civil Justice Institute, and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022. Professor Gilles is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Yale Law School.
Professor Monica Haymond joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as an Assistant Professor of Law. She is a civil procedure and remedies scholar whose work examines the relationship between procedural rules and government power. Her current projects focus on how emerging civil-litigation practices shape the behavior of parties, the exercise of judicial discretion, and the federal government’s capacity to represent the public interest. She previously taught at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law and practiced as a managing associate in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice in Washington, DC. She clerked for Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Adalberto Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Professor Haymond earned a BA from the University of California, Davis, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Professor Jill Horwitz will join the Northwestern Pritzker Law and Feinberg School of Medicine faculties in the 2025-2026 academic year. She is currently the David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and Founding Faculty Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits at UCLA Law, as well as the Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law at our Law School. Professor Horwitz holds appointments as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia, Canada. Both a legal scholar and policy expert, Professor Horwitz is addressing some of the most pressing law and policy issues of our day, including the studies related to opioid crisis, health insurance, and health care markets. A highly productive scholar, she has published widely in top law reviews, health policy journals, and economics journals. Professor Horwitz received her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, a JD magna cum laude, and a PhD in health policy, all from Harvard University.
Professor Kara Ingelhart joins the Northwestern Pritzker Law faculty as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and the inaugural Director of the LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic within the Bluhm Legal Clinic, where she now leads in clinical instruction and management of the LGBTQI+ rights advocacy efforts. Her substantive areas of interest include low-income advocacy, criminal legal system reform, and public health law and policy issues that impact the LGBTQI+ community. Before coming to Northwestern Pritzker Law, she was a Senior Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, where she played an instrumental role in advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV under federal and state civil rights laws through impact litigation, public policy, and community education.
Professor Andrea Lewis Hartung joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions within the Bluhm Legal Clinic. In 2024-2025, she is serving as the Center’s Interim Director. She previously worked in the Center as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law, where she built and directed the Center’s Women’s Defense Initiative. Immediately before assuming the role of Legal Director, Professor Lewis Hartung worked as an Appellate Attorney in the Supreme Court and Appellate Program of the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, where she implemented a project to advance state constitutional arguments to challenge extreme criminal penalties on appeal. She has authored or co-authored numerous amicus curia briefs submitted in federal and state courts nationwide. She has written and presented across the country on wrongful convictions, gender, and extreme sentencing. She has also worked as an associate in the labor and employment group at a Chicago-based law firm.
Professor Priyanka Motaparthy joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights within the Bluhm Legal Clinic. She previously served as Director of the Project on Armed Conflict, Counterterrorism, and Human Rights at Columbia Law School, as well as senior instructor in the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic. There, her work focused on accountability for human rights abuses in armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations. She worked closely with human rights advocates in Yemen, organizing advocacy campaigns at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and the General Assembly in New York. Professor Motaparthy also advocated with the U.S. Department of Defense for better protections against civilian harm in United States operations, making recommendations on key policy reforms. Professor Motaparthy is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and an honors graduate of Brown University.
Professor Eric Sirota joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Tenant Advocacy Clinic within the Bluhm Legal Clinic. He has spent his career fighting for housing equity in a wide variety of contexts. Before joining the faculty at Northwestern, he served as the Director of Housing Justice at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, where he engaged in both litigation and policy advocacy to help bolster the rights of low-income tenants and advance the goals of tenant associations and grassroots coalitions. Prior to starting work at Shriver, Professor Sirota worked as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in Michigan Law School’s Veterans Legal Clinic, where he supervised students representing veterans facing eviction, poor living conditions, and other matters, and at the University of Illinois College of Law’s Community Preservation Clinic, where he worked with students representing borrowers in consumer-housing litigation.
Associate Dean Molly Brownfield joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center, Associate Dean of Information Services, and Senior Lecturer. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Associate Dean Brownfield was Director of the Tarlton Law Library, Assistant Dean for Information Services, and Lecturer at the University of Texas School of Law. In addition to her work in academic law libraries, she also spent several years in the private sector – first as the Manager of Library Services at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, and then as an attorney practicing trademark law for several years with the law firm of Kelly IP, LLP in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in French and Comparative Area Studies from Duke University, a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School, and a Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas School of Information. She is a longtime member of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Librarian Kristina DeGuzman joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as the Research and Digital Resources Librarian at the Pritzker Legal Research Center. In this role, she supports student and faculty access to the Center’s electronic databases and research services and serves as a point-of-contact to electronic resource vendors. Prior to coming to Northwestern Pritzker Law, Librarian DeGuzman worked as a research librarian at the Chicago office of Jenner & Block, LLP, and before beginning her career as a law librarian, she worked in immigration at the Department of Homeland Security. She holds a BA in political science from Northwestern University, a JD and MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Chicago Association of Law Libraries.
Professor Priyanka Goonetilleke joins Northwestern Pritzker Law as the Marti Family Fellowship Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. He received his BEc (Honors Class I) and LLB (Honors Class I) from the University of Sydney and his PhD (Economics) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research applies empirical methods to issues related to the criminal justice system. He is primarily interested in understanding how the criminal justice system contributes to inequality. Professor Goonetilleke’s work has been published in journals such as Criminology & Public Policy and AEA: Papers and Proceedings.
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