Michele Benedetto Neitz

• BA, Santa Clara University
• JD, New York University

• Judicial Ethics
• Youth Law
• Public Interest Law
• Professional Responsibility
• Poverty Law & Poverty Law Conference

• Served as Judicial Clerk for the Hon. Napoleon A. Jones Jr., US District Court.
• Designed Youth Outreach Project for San Diego Legal Aid Society as part of Equal Justice Works Fellowship.
• Associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Diego.
• Member, California State Bar.

• co-editor: Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader. Carolina Academic Press (2011).
• A Unique Bench, A Common Code: Evaluating Judicial Ethics in Juvenile Court, 24 Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics 97 (2011).
• The Plight of the Derivative Plaintiff: Justice Carter's Dissent in Hogan v. Ingold, ch. in The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter": Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).
• Key to Successful Independence: State-Funded Post-Secondary Educational Assistance for Former Foster Youth, 23 St. John's J of Legal Commentary 383 (2008).
• Crisis on the Immigration Bench: An Ethical Perspective, 73 Brooklyn Law Review 467 (2008). Also in 28 J. Nat'l Ass'n Admin. L. Judiciary 471 (2008).
• A Subdued Year for California Lawmakers: The New California Employment Legislation Effective January 1, 2006, 11 Employment Law Commentary issue 17 (Nov. 2005).
• An Ounce of Prevention: A Foster Youth's Substantive Due Process Right to Proper Preparation for Emancipation, 9 UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy 381 (2005).
• Happy Birthday, You're Homeless, with Phil Landew. National Center for Youth Law, Youth Law News (April-June 2003).
• Help for Youth Leaving Foster Care, San Diego Union-Tribune (February 13, 2003).

• Business Associations
• Professional Responsibility
• Poverty Law