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Veryl Pow

Bio

Veryl Pow, a movement lawyer who specializes in solidarity economics and land return, joined the Northeastern Law faculty in 2025 as associate professor of law and architecture within the School of Law and the College of Arts, Media, and Design. Professor Pow's conception of movement lawyering was shaped by his time in Baltimore, where grassroots community members creatively and resiliently built urban farms, cooperatives and community land trusts in response to neoliberal conditions of disinvestment, immiseration and premature death.

As an activist teacher and scholar, Professor Pow challenges his students to critically examine black letter legal doctrines in their origins and material outcomes, while simultaneously reimagining and repurposing the law towards collective liberation. His writings, which have been published by the UCLA Law Review, have centered on racial capitalism, critical race theory and rebellious lawyering.

Professor Pow previously served as a clinical instructor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and with the Sustainable Economies Law Center.  He practiced rebellious lawyering in South Los Angeles around traffic court debt. As a Skadden fellow in Baltimore, Professor Pow represented hundreds of debtors caught in the predation of the bail bonds industry, and challenged the industry in class action litigation that ended in a settlement with two of the nation’s largest insurers of bail bonds. Professor Pow holds a JD from UCLA School of Law and a BA from the University of Washington.

Fields of Expertise

• Critical Race Theory
• Law and Society
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Political Economy
• Property Law
• Social Justice
• Sustainable Development