Yalie Margo Schlanger was appointed in April to the position of Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School (HLS) and will join the faculty this summer, according to Michael A. Churma, the HLS news director.

"We are very pleased to have Margo Schlanger join the faculty," said Dean of the Faculty of Law Robert C. Clark. "She brings valuable knowledge to the faculty in the important area of institutional reform."

"I'm looking forward to starting serious work on an examination of judicial decrees that attempt to reform problem institutions," Schlanger said.

Schlanger graduated from Yale College in 1989 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1993.

After graduation, Schlanger clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the 1993 and 1994 terms.

Schlanger is currently a trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

She is also researching judicially supervised reform of governmental institutions such as schools, jails and prisons.

This past spring, her article, "Injured Women before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930," was published in the Harvard Women's Law Journal.

Schlanger will teach the first-year Constitutional Law elective, as well as a seminar on institutional reform litigation.

"I hope to shed light on whether there is a way to make decrees more effective while still leaving governments authority to run their own institutions," Schlanger said.