Brandi Lupo is a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School.  Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure and professional responsibility.  In particular, she writes about gamesmanship in the civil justice system, with a focus on whether and when the law should “level the playing field” between litigants.  Her current projects include an analysis of “the strategic mootness gap” in class action mootness doctrine, a study of “long-game gamesmanship” in litigation, and an examination of lawyerless pleading standards.

Before joining Stanford, Brandi practiced as a litigation and enforcement associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Palo Alto.  She clerked for Judge William J. Nardini of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Earlier in her career, she worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Roosevelt Institute Network, and the New York City Council.

Brandi graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Social Change and Communications Director and Editor of The Regulatory Review.  She received the Henry C. Loughlin Prize for the best student paper on legal ethics.  She was also a Littleton Fellow in the Legal Writing Program and a Lipman Family Prize Fellow at the Wharton School of Business.   Brandi received her B.A. magna cum laude from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrated in legal theory and democratic design.

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Thomas C. Grey Fellowship