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• AB, Harvard College
• JD, Harvard Law School
• jbudd@piercelaw.edu
• (603) 513-5122
• Courses: Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Litigation, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts
• Committees: Appeals, Judicial Clerkships, Law Review Advisor
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Prior to joining Pierce Law, Professor Budd served for more than a decade as Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties. At the ACLU, he served as lead counsel in all major litigation while supervising a complex constitutional law practice involving two staff attorneys and over twenty volunteer lawyers. He has litigated cases addressing school desegregation, jail overcrowding, juvenile curfews, police practices, prison conditions, capital punishment, the rights of immigrants and the poor, freedom of speech, and discrimination based on race, religion, and sexual orientation.

From 1996 through 2004, Professor Budd taught civil rights litigation at the University of San Diego School of Law. As a Fulbright Scholar in Europe during 2005, he taught American constitutional law and lectured on a variety of subjects relating to public-interest legal advocacy. Working with the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training, he consulted in the development of a statewide certification course addressing racial profiling in law enforcement and served as the principal on–camera legal instructor for the videotaped curriculum. He has mentored student interns from law schools across the country.

Professor Budd holds an AB degree, summa cum laude, from Harvard College, and a JD degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard Law, he served as a student attorney for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and as the national law student liaison to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants. Following graduation, he clerked for the Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court, Northern District of California, and for Justice Stanley Mosk of the California Supreme Court. Upon completion of his clerkships, Professor Budd joined the law firm of McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen), where he worked as a commercial litigator from 1989 to 1993.