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Dan Jackson

Bio

As founding executive director of the NuLawLab, Dan Jackson ’97 is reimagining what legal education can look like — and what the law itself can do. Since launching the lab in 2013, he has helped build one of the most distinctive experiential learning environments in American legal education, where design thinking and legal empowerment converge to solve real problems for real people.

For Northeastern Law students, NuLawLab is a portal into a different kind of legal practice. Engagement begins with the upper-level Laboratory Seminar in Applied Design and Legal Empowerment, offered twice a year, and extends into project-based and independent study opportunities, residencies, fellowships, and co-ops with the lab. The work is live, the stakes are real, and the learning is unlike anything found in a traditional classroom.

After graduating from Northeastern Law, Dan clerked for Judge Hugh H. Bownes at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, then spent 13 years at Bingham McCutchen as an employment attorney and director of attorney development. He has also served as Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. Before law — and still today — he worked as a theater designer, a creative instinct that is, in many ways, the engine behind everything NuLawLab does.