Jonathan Feldman

Jonathan Feldman teaches first-year Lawyering. He is also the General Counsel for Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, where he focuses on legal ethics, labor relations, and impact litigation. He worked for the Empire Justice Center for 24 years, where his primary focus was civil rights and education law. He has litigated class actions in the areas of special education, school desegregation, and equitable school funding, and has co-authored two editions of the textbook, Education Law (Routledge: 2014 and 2021).

He has also taught Lawyering, Professional Responsibility, and various clinics at Cornell Law School and Syracuse University College of Law. During the 1990s, he worked for the Education Law Center in Newark, NJ, and the Community Service Society in New York City. A graduate of Oberlin College and New York University School of Law, he clerked for the Hon. James T. Giles, U.S.D.J., the first African American to be named partner at a major Philadelphia law firm (1975).

On the side, he plays in blues and jazz groups (piano and vocals). Jonathan Feldman Trio on Spotify; "Jonathan Feldman, Blues and Jazz" channel on YouTube.