Elyse Diamond

Adjunct Professor Elyse Diamond joined Haub Law in 2001 and has served in a variety of roles at the Law School. From 2025 to 2024, Professor Diamond served as the Director of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC), while also supporting the Environmental Law Program as the law school’s Environmental Law Program Career Specialist. She has been instrumental in leading the law school’s Access to Justice Project, including helping to launch the Legal Hand Call-In Center serving Westchester operated by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

Professor Diamond's teaching primarily focuses on professional skills, legal writing, and access to justice-oriented courses. She currently co-teaches the Access to Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary course in which law and computer science students follow a user-centered design process to design a technology tool prototype to address a real-world access to justice gap. She also teaches the Access to Justice Seminar as well as the required intensive first-year Legal Skills I and II courses. Past courses have included Topics in Legal Theory: Second Circuit, Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Simulation, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and Criminal Law and Legal Writing and Analysis.

In her previous role as Director of PILC, Professor Diamond set the career and professional development strategy for the Law School and advised students interested in public service, to assist them in identifying and obtaining internships and post-graduate positions and building successful careers, in legal not-for-profit public interest advocacy and policy organizations, in federal, state and local government, and in prosecuting and defender offices. She served as the primary federal and state judicial clerkship advisor and collaborated closely with all faculty and staff in Haub Law’s criminal justice, environmental law, and public interest programs. She also provided oversight to the PILSO/PILC Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program and the Pro Bono Justice Program.

Professor Diamond has created numerous specialized career guides, regularly moderates and serves as a panelist on public service professional development programs, writes and presents on public service and environmental career and professional development issues, and has served on local and national committees and workgroups for AALS, NALP, and the New York State Commission on Access to Justice, among other professional development organizations and groups. She is a current Hudson Valley Justice Center Board Member, was an Equal Justice Works, National Advisory Committee Member, 2021-2023, and developed law school competency rubrics and assessment tools for professional communication skills for the Halloren Center for Ethics and Professionalism, St. Thomas School of Law.

Professor Diamond received her JD, cum laude, from Fordham Law School, where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review. Prior to joining Haub Law, she spent three years as a full-time Legal Practice Skills faculty member at Suffolk Law School in Boston. She started her legal career as a litigation associate at national law firms.

• JD, Fordham Law School

• Access to Justice Lab LAW 995A
• Access to Justice Seminar LAW 995
• Legal Skills I LAW 622C
• Legal Skills II LAW 622D
• Externship: Guided LAW 993FP (Legal Hand)
• Pretrial Civil Litigation Simulation LAW 817A
• Advanced Appellate Advocacy LAW 849

• Elisabeth Haub School of Law Class of 2023 Staff/Department Award for Excellence
• Hudson Valley Justice Center, Board Member, Summer 2022–Present
• Equal Justice Works, National Advisory Committee Member, Summer 2021–2023
• Pace University Outstanding Contribution Award, 2017

• Where Do We Go From Here? Simple Ways to Support Institutional Racial and Social Justice Initiatives, National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Bulletin (October 2021).
• Halloren Center for Ethics and Professionalism, St. Thomas School of Law, Professional Development Competencies, Professional Communication Working Group, 2019–2022 (developed law school competency rubrics and assessment tools for professional communication and other professional development skills mandated by ABA Standard 302(d) learning outcomes)
• Lessons Learned: Providing Personality & Skills Assessments to Law Students, NALP Bulletin (January 2020)
• Meeting the PD Challenge.6 Steps for Advising Dual Degree Students, NALP Bulletin (January 2019)
• The All-Inclusive Guide to Judicial Clerking by Abigail L. Perdue is a Must-Have Resource for Prospective Judicial Clerks and Advisors, NALP Bulletin, March 2018 (book review)
• It Takes a Village: Strengthen Your Public Interest Community Through Thoughtful Collaboration with Faculty and Students, NALP Bulletin (February 2017) (with Leigh-Ann Todd Enyame)
• Don't Go it Alone: Law School PD Gets a Boost from Creative Collaborations On and Off-Campus, PD Quarterly (November 2016)
• NALP Judicial Clerkship Section Federal Administrative Law Judges Post-Graduate Clerkship Hiring Guide, online at NALPConnect (March 2016) (updated/contributed)
• Navigating the Judicial Clerkship Process and Public Interest Law Opportunities: 8 Tips for Advisors, NALP Bulletin (April 2015) (with Claudia Melo)