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Edward W. De Barbieri

Assistant Professor of Clinical LawCounsel, Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship
Phone
(718) 780-7582
 
Curriculum vitae
Education
B.A., Boston College
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School
J.D., Brooklyn Law School
LL.M., National University of Ireland, Cork

Biography

Professor De Barbieri focuses on community economic development, and directs the Urban Economic Development Clinic. He is a 2008 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, and is an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Committee Member, having also been a Fellow. Before joining Brooklyn Law School, he was an adjunct professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law, and senior staff attorney at Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project, where he provided legal assistance to nonprofit organizations, low-income workers, tenants, and homeowners in foreclosure. Professor De Barbieri joined Urban Justice Center in 2008 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University College Cork, Ireland from 2007-2008.
 
Professor De Barbieri speaks and writes about issues related to community lawyering, economic development in impoverished neighborhoods, and the rights of low-income workers and immigrant small business owners. Among his recent presentations on these topics were at the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, American Bar Association/ NLADA Equal Justice Conference, and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. He has testified regularly before the New York City Council, as well as the City Planning Commission, New York City Economic Development Corporation, and New York State Assembly. His work appears in The Huffington Post and has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times.
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