Alexis Karteron is the director of the Rutgers Constitutional Rights
Clinic. Prior to joining Rutgers in September 2016, Professor Karteron
was a senior attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).
At the NYCLU, she litigated complex constitutional cases involving
police reform, the school-to-prison pipeline, the First Amendment, and
voting rights. While at the NYCLU, Karteron served as lead counsel in
one of three cases challenging the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices. Prior to joining the NYCLU, she served as White House associate staff secretary from 2009 to 2010. From 2007 to 2009, she was an
assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
where she litigated voting rights cases in the federal courts, including
the Supreme Court.
Professor Karteron earned her J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School
and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard University. After clerking
for Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, she was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, as a recipient of the
Fried Frank/LDF fellowship.
