Faculty
Professor Carol M. Suzuki
Associate Professor of Law
A.B. 1986, Stanford University
J.D. 1991, Columbia University School of Law
Member of the California, District of Columbia, and New York Bars
Carol Suzuki joined the UNM law faculty in 2003, bringing a strong background in clinical law.
After graduating from Columbia University School of Law, she joined the Legal Aid Society in New York City. As part of her workload in the civil division, she took on all HIV/AIDS cases that came into the office. After four years, she joined the HIV Law Project in New York City. As senior staff attorney, she represented women of color and their families. Recognizing the need for additional expertise to most effectively represent her clients, Suzuki often would bring in social workers to help solve client problems. By the time she left in 1999, she was deputy director.
While at the HIV Law Project, Suzuki taught an annual class on professional responsibility to third-year students at Columbia University School of Law. In 1999, she became a visiting professor at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, working in the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic. She then moved to Yale Law School, as a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow. Suzuki worked mostly in the immigration clinic, but she also supervised student outreach in the HIV/AIDS community, and worked with clinic students to improve prison conditions for incarcerated women.
At the UNM School of Law, she teaches in the Community Lawyering Clinic, an AIDS law seminar, and Torts.
Suzuki co-authors the annual supplement to the family law chapter of David Webber’s “AIDS and the Law” book, and she wrote an article on post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum claims. She serves on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Clinical Legal Education. Suzuki is a founding member of Voices of Women of Color Against HIV/AIDS.
Contact Information
Ph.: 505-277-1073
Fax: FAX: 505-277-4367
Office: 2530
Email: suzuki@law.unm.edu
