Larisa G. Bowman is the inaugural Court Innovation Fellow at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and Project Fellow at the American Law Institute to work on ALI’s newly launched Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication project.  In addition, she teaches as adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she previously held a three-year appointment as a visiting associate professor.

Prior to joining Iowa Law, Larisa was deputy director of the housing unit at a legal services organization in New York City, focused primarily on eviction defense for low-income tenants.  She also has experience supervising second- and third-year students at the Stanford Community Law Clinic and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in their housing practice areas.

Larisa earned her BA from Brown University in 2003 and her JD from Stanford Law School in 2009.  Upon graduation, she worked as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Ralph D. Grants of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and the Honorable William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Her most recent publications include Lawyers Aren’t Rent, 75 Stan. L. Rev. Online 132 (2023) (with Juliet M. Brodie) and Remembering Chief Justice Gants as a Champion for Housing Justice, 62 B.C.L. Rev. 2840 (2021) (with Esme Caramello & Nicole Summers).