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2019 Alumna Graduates Harvard Law School

Class of 2019 alumna Kirsten “Shaw” Mettler received her Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and was selected as the recipient of the Morgan and Helen Chu Prize for outstanding academic achievement. Her note, "It’s Just a Pinch": Conceptualizing Inadequate Pain Management for Women’s Healthcare as Sex Discrimination, was chosen as a winner of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review student writing competition.
Shaw was the Developments in the Law Editor for Harvard Law Review, and co-editor in chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. During law school, she interned at the United States Department of Education, the California Department of Justice, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and Youth Law Australia.
 
Following graduation, Shaw will spend the next two years clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After clerking, she plans to practice as a civil rights attorney.
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