Carmen Halford
Adjunct Professor of Law
Education
Harvard Law School, JD 2016
Bio
Carmen Halford is a practicing lawyer, lecturer and clinical legal educator who works in entrepreneurship and entertainment law. Her research interests currently center on the legal profession’s role in constructing, perpetuating and dismantling barriers faced by justice-impacted individuals in efforts to start and sustain entrepreneurial ventures, including in the music industry.
Professor Halford serves as a lecturer at law at Harvard Law School (HLS) where she recently taught a first-of-its-kind reading group: Second Chance Entrepreneurship – barriers and opportunities to achieve financial independence for the formerly incarcerated. She is also the supervising attorney for the HLS Recording Artists Project where she supervises student teams representing clients in cases on the cutting edge of music law, and a clinical instructor for the transactional law clinics where she teaches modules in the clinical seminar and supervises students on a wide range of transactional matters.
As a part-time lecturer at Northeastern, Professor Halford teaches Secured Transactions, a core course for future business attorneys.
Before her career in legal education, Professor Halford worked as a transactional associate at the New York firm Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, where she concentrated her practice on mergers and acquisitions, including music catalogs, debt and equity financings and general corporate matters. She regularly counseled individuals as well as US and foreign enterprises across a wide breadth of industries, cultivating extensive experience in primary and secondary equity sales of private companies, secured and unsecured financings and other complex commercial transactions and also acted as outside general counsel to many of her clients. Prior to that position, Professor Halford was a global transactions associate at the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Professor Halford also maintained an active and diverse pro bono practice touching on matters from asylum, city property tax exemptions and music licensing agreements.
