Julia Pothen

Julia Pothen

Assistant Professor of Legal Skills
Phone: (603) 513-5046
Office: UNHL Legal Skills, 2 White Street, Concord, NH 03301

Julia Pothen is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Pace University, Dartmouth College, and Oxford University Keble College, and has taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Harvard College (where she earned the Leveson Memorial Teaching Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching) and for Teach for America, where she taught 7th Grade Literacy in the Bronx. Professor Pothen comes to us from legal practice where she served as a Special Education Attorney working with schools and families, following a period as both a Claims Investigator for the Maine Department of Education and a public Defender in New Hampshire.

Courses Taught

  • LSK 919: Legal Analysis & Writing 1
  • LSK 920: Legal Analysis & Writing 2
  • LSK 921: Legal Analysis,Writing&Rsrch I
  • LSK 922: Legal Analysis,Writing&RsrchII
  • LSK 953: Writing for Practice

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School

Research Interests

  • Educational Law