LEAP FACULTY MEMBERS

Margaret A. Burnham, Professor of Law and Africana Studies at Northeastern University and directs the Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project, which conducts research on violence against Black Americans during the Jim Crow years.

Lennox S. Hinds, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, International Human Rights Lawyer.

William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr., Former judge in Baltimore, Maryland, Senior and Founding Partner in the law firm, Murphy, Falcon, Murphy law firm, with 40+ years of practice in and out of the courtroom.

Bernard K. Freamon, Professor of Law Emeritus at Seton Hall Law School; an adjunct professor of law at NYU School of Law; and an affiliate faculty member at George Mason University.

Geraldine Hines, Retired Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and a Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor, Boston College Law School.

Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill.

Nana Gyamfi, President, National Conference of Black Lawyers, (NCBL) Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

Irving L. Joyner, Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Professor Joyner has been engaged in litigation in the federal courts to challenge voter suppression laws and challenges to the redistricting plans for state and congressional legislative districts.

Donald M. Temple, Practicing lawywer in the District of Columbia and metropolitan area federal courts, teaches and mentors aspiring law students, advises fellow lawyers, and supports social and economic empowerment efforts domestically and internationally.