Llezlie Green Coleman
Practitioner in Residence
Office: Room 409
Phone: 202-274-4173
E-mail: lcoleman@wcl.american.edu
Llezlie Green Coleman is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the General Practice Clinic. Prior to arriving at WCL, she was an attorney in the Civil Rights and Employment practice at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, where she represented plaintiffs in class actions alleging employment, fair housing, and credit discrimination, as well as wage and hour violations. Prior to working at Cohen Milstein, Llezlie was a law clerk for the Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr., United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. She also interned with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Llezlie is an Associate Trustee with the Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Co-Chair of the ABA Labor and Employment Section's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Legal Profession. She graduated from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and Dartmouth College with a B.A., with honors, in Government.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Rights
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Columbia Law School
- B.A., Dartmouth College (cum laude)
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Selected Publications- Llezlie Green Coleman, Hate Propaganda and Sexual Violence in the Rwandan Genocide: An Argument for Intersectionality in International Law, 33 Colum. Hum. Rights L. Rev. 733 (2002).


