Faculty/Staff ProfileTitle

Areas of Expertise
Civil Procedure
Civil Rights
Discrimination
Federal Courts
Gender and Sexuality
Lawyering Skills

Biography
Luedeman joined the School of Law faculty in 2024. He teaches courses on lawyering skills and civil rights doctrine. He previously taught lawyering and advanced civil procedure at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and he was a part-time instructor at Yale Law School.

Luedeman’s scholarship centers on civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexuality, the functioning of courts, and legal education. His recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, SMU Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, Northeastern University Law Review, and Michigan Technology Law Review. He is also actively involved with several national organizations of law faculty devoted to those fields. Supplementing his scholarly work, Luedeman has taken on several pro bono projects while in academia, including successfully appealing the dismissal of a client’s civil rights claims in federal court.

Prior to teaching, Luedeman was a practitioner specializing in complex and appellate litigation. Before private practice, he clerked for judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He received an A.B. in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal editorial board and the New Haven Legal Assistance housing clinic.