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Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, J.D.

Assistant Professor
School of Law

Director, Medical Legal Partnership
Legal Clinics, Center for Health Law Studies

Education

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Virginia
B.A., Yale University

Practice Areas

Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, the Medical Legal Partnership’s inaugural director, joins the School of Law faculty from Boston University School of Law where she directed two innovative experiential courses, the Health Justice Practicum and the Compliance Policy Clinic. She has been involved in the MLP field since 2008, including co-founding Ropes & Gray LLP’s nationally-recognized pro bono MLP program and launching three other MLPs with a law school clinic as the legal partner. 

Research Interests

Pelfrey Duryea has published on housing policy, health care inequities, mindfulness and law, and health justice clinic design, among other topics. Before teaching, she practiced in the government enforcement practice group at Ropes & Gray LLP.