Clinical Education Program Faculty and Staff
Program Faculty and Staff
Rebecca Powell
Co-Director of the Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic
Brittany Stringfellow Otey
Acting Director of Clinical Education
Clinical Professor of Law
Director Legal Aid Clinic
Jackie Adams
Adjunct Professor of Law
Interim Director of Externships
David DeJute
Adjunct Professor of Law
Director Disaster Relief Clinic
Straus Institute Clinical Faculty
Stephanie Blondell
Assistant Professor of Law and Practice
Associate Director Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Director Mediation Clinic
Palmer Center Clinical Faculty
Nootbaar Institute Clinical Faculty
The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Religious Liberty Clinic
Eric Rassbach
Visiting Professor and Executive Director
Eric Rassbach has practiced at the Becket Fund since 2003, and with his extraordinary record in religious liberty litigation, he was the ideal candidate to help Pepperdine Caruso School of Law launch a religious liberty clinic. He has led or been a part of Becket litigation teams in each of the organization’s pathbreaking victories at the United States Supreme Court, including Hosanna-Tabor, Hobby Lobby, Holt v. Hobbs, Zubik v. Burwell, Agudath Israel of America v. Cuomo, and Fulton v. Philadelphia. In 2020, Professor Rassbach argued Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru to the Supreme Court, garnering a 7 to 2 decision for his Catholic school clients. In addition, he has also briefed and argued cases in federal appeals courts and state supreme courts across the nation. Professor Rassbach is a graduate of Haverford College and Harvard Law School.
Daniel Chen
Adjunct Professor and Supervising Attorney
Michael A. Helfand
Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law & Religion
Co-Director of the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion & Ethics
Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School