Avram Frey

Mr. Avram D. Frey recently completed his 2015-2017 term as a Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest & Constitutional Law. Prior to this position, he served as a Fellow and Supervising Attorney at the Reproductive Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law. In this role, Mr. Frey was a Senior Litigation Adviser and co-teacher for a new law student clinic with a mandate for advocacy on behalf of the civil rights of pregnant women.

Prior to his work at the Reproductive Justice Clinic, he was an attorney at the State Post-Conviction Defender’s Office in Tennessee where he represented capital defendants in trial and appellate stages of post-conviction.

EDUCATION:

• New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude)
  • Robert McKay Scholar
  • Symposium Editor, Annual Survey of American Law
• Brown University (B.A., magna cum laude)
  • Undergraduate Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa

PROFESSIONAL ADMISSIONS:

• State of New York
• State of Tennessee

JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP(S):

• Law clerk to the Honorable John Nixon, Federal District Judge, Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, 2008-2009