Professor Engler directs the law school's clinical programs. He teaches the Public Interest Law Seminar and Clinic and The Lawyering Process and co-teaches clinical component courses. He writes about ethical issues, the delivery of legal services to the poor, and legal education. He directs the Public Service Project of the law school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility. Before joining the New England faculty in 1993, he was the director of the Housing Law Unit at Brooklyn (New York) Legal Services. He clerked for the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. During the 1999-2000 academic year, he was a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. He was the 2004 chair of the Association of American Law Schools Standing Committee on Clinical Legal Education.

Selected Publications

• Towards a Context-Based Civil Gideon Through Access to Justice Initiatives, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. 196 (2006)
  
• From the Margins to the Core: Integrating Public Service Legal Work into the Mainstream of Legal Education, 40 New Eng. L. Rev. 479 (2006)
  
• Shaping a Context-Based Civil Gideon from the Dynamics of Social Change, 15 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 697 (2006)
  
• Revising the Role of the Court-Connected Mediator To Achieve Fairness for Unrepresented Litigants 11 NE-ACR Newsletter, (Winter 2005)
  
• The Legal Community's Response to 9/11: Normalcy After 9/11: Public Service as the Crisis Fades, 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 983 (2004)
  
• From 10 to 20: A Guide to Utilizing the MacCrate Report Over the Next Decade, 23 Pace L. Rev. 519 (2003)
  
• What Counts As Pro Bono/Public Service? One View, The AALS Pro Bono and Public Service Section Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.3 (2002).
  
• The MacCrate Report Turns 10: Assessing its Impact and Identifying Gaps we Should Seek to Narrow, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 109 (2002)
  
• Integrating Public Service into Non-clinical Courses, The Law Teacher 13 (Fall, 2001).
  
• And Justice for All--Including the Unrepresented Poor: Revisiting the Roles of the Judges, Mediators and Clerks, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 1987 (1999)
  
• Out of Sight and Out of Line: The Need for Regulation of Lawyers' Negotiations with Unrepresented Poor Persons, 85 Cal. L. Rev. 79 (1997)
  

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