Peter Widulski

Adjunct Professor
Assistant Director of the First Year Legal Skills Program
Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Peter Widulski

Biography

Adjunct Professor Peter Widulski began teaching at Elisabeth Haub School of Law in 2007, and in 2010 he was appointed Assistant Director of Haub Law’s First Year Legal Skills Program. He was a Kent Scholar at Columbia Law School and clerked for the Honorable Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.), the Honorable Robert Katzmann (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), and the Honorable Robert Smith (New York State Court of Appeals). Prior to graduating from Columbia Law, he was a Lecturer at Princeton University and taught philosophy and constitutional law as an adjunct at Fordham University and Rutgers University, and business ethics as an adjunct professor at Fordham's College of Business Administration. Just prior to coming to Haub Law, he taught legal research and writing and moot court for three years at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, where he also coached several of Loyola's moot court teams and was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Black Law Students Association.

While employed as a litigation associate at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, Professor Widulski worked, among other assignments, on a major product licensing case. In 2008 he was one of several lawyers presented with the New York City Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for service as pro bono counsel to a person under sentence of death.

Professor Widulski has written articles on constitutional law, jurisprudence, law and literature, and political philosophy. He has written posts on domestic and international criminal law for Haub Law’s Criminal Justice blog, and he serves on the editorial board of Lex Naturalis, a journal of natural law jurisprudence. In addition to his teaching and administrative work at Haub Law, he coaches Haub Law’s International Criminal Court and Evidence moot court teams.

Education

  • BA, Columbia University
  • MA, The New School for Social Research
  • PhD, (Philosophy) Fordham University
  • JD, Columbia Law School

Courses Taught