Professor Russell is a founding member and past chair of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, a non-profit legal services organization in East Palo Alto, CA.


In 1991, she traveled to South Africa with a delegation of legal scholars to consult with the African National Congress on constitution-drafting; in 1990, she traveled to Nicaragua as an election monitor. In 1992, she was co-director of the Santa Clara summer program in Tokyo.



She has been honored by the Asian Pacific Law Students Association and the Black Law Students Association for her contributions to student life at Santa Clara.

After law school Professor Russell had a one-year clerkship with U.S. District Judge James E. Doyle in Wisconsin, and then returned to California for a fellowship with Public Advocates Inc., a public interest law firm in San Francisco. In 1986, she returned to Stanford Law School as the director of public interest programs and also served as the acting assistant dean of student affairs. She joined the Santa Clara law faculty, after receiving a graduate degree from Stanford Law School in 1990.

Civil procedure, constitutional law, and contemporary legal theory.

 

Constitutional Law Seminar
Pleading and Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law II
Contemporary Legal Theory Seminar
Public Interest and Social Justice Practice
Constitutional Law I
Critical Race Theory