Stephen Ellmann

Stephen Ellmann

Stephen Ellmann

An award-winning author on legal ethics and an expert in clinical legal education, constitutional law, and South African law, STEPHEN ELLMANN (1951-2019) also pursued his deep interest in legal education through his work as New York Law Schools' Director of Clinical and Experiential Learning. As a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama from 1977–1983, 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 in Montgomery, Professor Ellmann began a long career in legal education by teaching courses on constitutional law and federal courts.