Research Bio

Jeffrey Selbin’s scholarship uses empirical tools to explore the theory and practice of clinical education and anti-poverty lawyering. In 2018, Selbin received the Society of American Law Teachers Great Teacher Award and the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Community Engaged Teaching . He has been recognized multiple times as a Northern California Super Lawyer; was named a Wasserstein Fellow  by Harvard Law School for distinguished public interest lawyers; and was selected as a Bellow Scholar  by the AALS Clinical Section for his anti-poverty and access-to-justice efforts.

Selbin is active in local and national clinical legal education, anti-poverty, and criminal justice reform efforts. At Berkeley, he served as co-faculty director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice and faculty director of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), Berkeley’s community-based clinic. Selbin founded EBCLC’s HIV/AIDS Law Project as a Skadden Fellow and served as EBCLC’s Executive Director.

Nationally, Selbin has served as an elected member of the Clinical Law Review Editorial Board  and two terms as an elected member of the board of directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association. He chaired the Poverty Law Section  of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and was a founding board member of the Fines and Fees Justice Center . Selbin was a visiting clinical professor at Yale Law School and a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law.

He co-directs the Policy Advocacy Clinic, which he founded in 2012 as an interdisciplinary clinic for law and public policy students to represent organization engaged in community-led racial and economic justice campaigns. 

Research Expertise and Interest

criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, juvenile justice, racial and social justice