The Director of the Law School’s First Year Legal Research and Writing Program since 2003, Jeanne Merino taught Legal Research and Writing in 1987-89, and again from 1999 to the present. She was a clinical supervisor at the East Palo Alto Community Law Project for nine years, and taught courses in Community Law Practice, Problem-Solving and Housing at the Law School and the University. Her interests include the intersection between legal theory and law practice, health and housing, and community law practice. Early in her career she clerked for Justice Cruz Reynoso of the California Supreme Court.