Our Team
We’re building a world class team of attorneys and staff to support students in their litigation and advocacy work during — and beyond — their time at Election Law Clinic.
Paris Boo
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Paris Boo is a second-year PhD student at Harvard’s Government Department. As the Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Election Law Clinic, she provides assistance with research and data analysis for the ELC’s cases and projects.
Paris’s recent research projects examine topics such as defense industry campaign financing, and racial attitudes towards Asian-Americans. These are part of her broader research agenda examining the domestic politics of U.S. security policy, with particular focus on race, local and congressional politics, and special interests. Paris’s research training involved work at international organizations, from the European Parliament to INTERPOL. Exposure to such law enforcement and legislative processes have honed her substantive interests in legal institutions and democratic representation.
Paris graduated Summa Cum Laude from Seoul National University with a B.A. in English and political science, and a M.A. in international studies. She previously lived near D.C.
Samuel Davis
Attorney and Clinical Instructor
Samuel Davis is a clinical instructor in the Election Law Clinic. He is a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School. He clerked for Associate Justice Anita Earls of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Prior to joining the clinic, Samuel litigated civil rights cases as a Liman Fellow at the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation and was an associate at a plaintiff-side workers’ rights firm in Boston. Samuel is admitted to practice as an attorney in Massachusetts and North Carolina. He lives in Jamaica Plain with his family.
Ruth Greenwood
Director and Assistant Clinical Professor
Ruth is an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Director of the Harvard Election Law Clinic. She engages in litigation and advocacy on a variety of election law cases, while training the next generation of election lawyers.
Ruth litigated two partisan gerrymandering cases from the trial level to the Supreme Court of the United States, Gill v. Whitford and Rucho v. Common Cause. She has also litigated minority vote dilution claims under state and federal voting rights acts, racial gerrymandering claims, and cases alleging a burden on the fundamental right to vote. In addition, Ruth has advised dozens of state advocates on drafting and implementing independent redistricting commissions, state voting rights acts, and adopting ranked choice voting. Ruth’s publications include Voting Rights Federalism (coauthored with Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Emory L.J. vol. 73(2) 2024) and Fair Representation in Local Government (Ind. J. L. & Soc. Equality vol 5(1) 2017).
Ruth was previously the Co-Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, Lead Counsel for Voting Rights at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a Redistricting Fellow with the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute. She received her LL.M from Columbia Law School in 2009, and her LL.B./B.Sc. from the University of Sydney in 2005.
Daniel Hessel
Attorney and Clinical Instructor
Daniel Hessel is a clinical instructor in the Election Law Clinic. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before joining the Clinic, he litigated election law cases with the Campaign Legal Center and environmental cases with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Veniece Miller
Manager of Operations and Outreach
As Manager of Operations and Outreach, Veniece heads the administration of policy, procedures, communications, events, and case tracking. She works to implement the Director’s vision as ELC grows, builds partnerships, and fosters alumni engagement. Veniece assists in voting rights advocacy, policy work, and litigation of the clinic.
Veniece received her B.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 with a degree in Political Science. Her background is in grassroots organizing, where she helped to start voter engagement and other advocacy groups in high schools and college campuses across Colorado. She expanded her work to the broader community as Secretary of the League of Women Voters Colorado board for two years, where she worked on initiatives to promote civic engagement.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Director of Strategy and Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Nicholas Stephanopoulos provides strategic advice for clinic cases, helps to litigate some of these matters, and is involved in supervising student work.
Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos’s research and teaching interests include election law, constitutional law, administrative law, legislation, and comparative law. His work is particularly focused on the intersection of democratic theory, empirical political science, and the American electoral system. His academic articles have appeared in, among others, the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He has also written for popular publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic, New Republic, Slate, and Vox. He has been involved in several litigation efforts as well, including two partisan gerrymandering cases based on his scholarship and decided by the Supreme Court.
Alora Thomas-Lundborg
Senior Counsel
Alora Thomas-Lundborg is the Strategic Litigation & Advocacy Director at Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Senior Counsel at the Election Law Clinic. Before coming to HLS, she was a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU Voting Rights Project. At the ACLU, Alora litigated voting rights cases throughout the country, including challenges to voter suppression and gerrymandering. She also co-authored several amicus briefs before the Supreme Court. Prior to joining the ACLU, Alora was a litigator at WilmerHale and Simpson Thacher, and a law clerk to Chief Judge Brodie in the Eastern District of New York. Alora has her B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is admitted to practice in New York state and several federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.