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Maysa Nichter

Assistant Teaching Professor

Maysa Eissa Nichter's teaching, research, and community engagement aim to enhance the university's pre-law curriculum and support programs.  Her courses include Introduction to Legal Reasoning, Introduction to Business Law, Introduction to Contracts, and Introduction to Intellectual Property.   Prior to joining UCSD, Maysa practiced intellectual property, corporate, and finance law at one of the world's largest law firms.  While at the firm, she also successfully represented asylum applicants in partnership with the National Committee on Refugee and Immigrant Children.  She also served as Staff Attorney with ChangeLab Solutions (then a project of the Public Health Institute) for several years prior to her transition to teaching and administration.  Maysa offers her students years of experience as a practitioner in "Big Law" and public interest, as well as more than a decade of experience as teacher and administrator in law school settings, most recently at UC Irvine School of Law.  In addition to teaching, Maysa directs UCSD's Krinsk-Houston Law & Politics Initiative, as well as UCSD's Local Internship Research Program.  She also serves as faculty advisor to UCSD's Moot Court team (currently ranked top 6% in the country), UCSD's Undergraduate Law Review, and UCSD's Pre-Law Coalition.  Maysa was recently awarded UCSD's Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award as recognition of her teaching excellence.  She is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA. 

UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA

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