Alicia Alvarez
- Visiting Professor - January Term 2018
Professor Alicia Alvarez specializes in issues affecting nonprofit and community-based organizations, focusing on economic justice. She also has focused on employment law in the Michigan Clinical Law Program. Professor Alvarez founded and directed the Community Development Clinic at DePaul University College of Law. She also taught in its Asylum and Immigration Clinic and its Civil Litigation Clinic. Professor Alvarez has been a visiting professor at the University of Valencia and at Boston College Law School; she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of El Salvador and has consulted with clinics throughout Latin America. In 2016, Professor Alvarez was elected for a three-year term on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). From 2012 to 2014, she served on the executive committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education and on the AALS Membership Review Committee, which she chaired from 2013 to 2014.
Professor Alvarez is the co-author (with Paul R. Tremblay) of Introduction to Transactional Lawyering Practice (West, 2013). Before teaching, she was a staff attorney at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest and Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. Professor Alvarez received her BA, magna cum laude, from Loyola University of Chicago and her JD, cum laude, from Boston College Law School.