Gowri Krishna
Clinical Professor of Law
212-636-6938
gkrishna@fordham.edu
Areas of Expertise: Community Economic Development, Clinics
Professor Gowri Krishna is a distinguished clinical educator and advocate for economic, racial, and social justice. She is a 2006 alumna of Fordham Law School. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, directing a project that provided legal services to low-wage immigrant workers. She has taught community economic development clinics for over a decade at the University of Michigan, Roger Williams University and New York Law School.
An expert on immigrant-owned worker cooperatives, Krishna has addressed national law conferences, given numerous trainings and presentations, and written extensively on the topic. She currently serves as Co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association.
- Expanding Your Worker Cooperative Business: A Guide to Licensing & Franchising, co-authored with Maru
Bautista, 2023, awarded Cooperative Development Foundation Grant.
Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Handbook for New Clinical Teachers, CLEA Handbook
Committee Co-Chair, Editor, Tenth Edition, 2023.Caring for the Souls of Our Students: The Evolution of a Community Economic Development Clinic DuringTurbulent Times, co-authored with Kelly Pfeifer and Dana Thompson, 28 CLINICAL L. REV. 243 (2021).Growing the Resistance: A Call to Action for Transactional Lawyers in the Era of Trump, 7 TENN. J. OF RACE,
GENDER, & SOCIAL JUSTICE 206 (2018).
Community Economic Development Lawyers and the New Democratic Economy, American Bar Association
Business Law Section, Community Economic Development Committee Newsletter, Spring 2014.Worker Cooperative Creation as Progressive Lawyering? Moving Beyond the One-Person, One-Vote Floor,
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW 33:2 (2012).