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Adjunct Professor Joseph Zengerle serves as the
Executive Director of the School of Law’s Clinic for Legal
Assistance to Servicemembers (CLAS). Established
in 2004, the clinic is the first of its kind among American law
schools.
From 1997 until 2002, Professor Zengerle served as Executive
Director of The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
Prior to his tenure at the Legal Aid Society, he was a partner
and co-founder of the Washington office at what is now Bingham
McCutchen. In 1979, Professor Zengerle was appointed by President
Carter and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary
of the U.S. Air Force.
Professor Zengerle began his legal career as an associate at
Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., followed by two clerkships,
first with the Honorable Carl McGowan on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit and then with the Honorable Warren Burger,
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Zengerle received his law degree from the University
of Michigan Law School where he was Comment editor for the Michigan
Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point; his subsequent military service
included Vietnam in 1968, when he was a special assistant to
General William Westmoreland during the Tet Offensive, and a
unit commander in I Corps.
From 2002-04, Professor Zengerle developed and
taught a law and policy seminar on homeland security and the war
on terror.
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