Alisa Klein is an Associate Professor at the Wilmington University School of Law, which was founded in 2022 with a mission to increase access to affordable legal education. Before joining the WilmU faculty, Alisa spent 28 years working as an appellate attorney and supervisor in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she litigated many constitutional law and administrative law cases. While working at DOJ, Alisa also regularly taught a constitutional law seminar as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and, more recently, as a visiting professor at Haverford College. Before starting at DOJ, she clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Louis H. Pollak on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Alisa received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Princeton University.
 
Alisa especially enjoys mentoring students and writing course materials that facilitate student growth. In addition to the constitutional law casebook that Alisa recently wrote for CALI, she has published law review articles and blog posts. If you are curious, you can read more about Alisa’s background here on her faculty page.