New York Law School is pleased to welcome four new faculty colleagues, Andrea Johnson, Associate Professor of Law; Jae Hyung Ryu, Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic; Keisha Parker, Acting Assistant Professor of Law; and Riti Singh, Acting Assistant Professor of Law. They began teaching in the Fall 2024 semester.
They are extraordinary educators, scholars, and practitioners and we look forward to their engagement in a wide range of efforts throughout the Law School. Read more about our new faculty members below.
Andrea Johnson
Professor Johnson is teaching courses in areas of contracts, employment discrimination, and civil rights litigation. Prior to joining NYLS, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Diversity and Inclusion Fellow at Rutgers Law School in Camden. She also previously taught legal writing at West Virginia University College of Law, where she served as the inaugural fellow of the Fitzsimmons Center for Litigation and Advocacy. Professor Johnson brings practice experience in workplace discrimination and civil rights litigation. Prior to academia, she litigated employment and civil rights cases, and she served as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Victoria Roberts in the Eastern District of Michigan. Read Professor Johnson’s full bio.
Jae Hyung Ryu
Prior to joining NYLS, Professor Ryu led the Community and Economic Development Clinic at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Before his academic career, he had over five years of experience at Cleary Gottlieb and Gunderson Dettmer. In both positions he managed a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate and financial transactions on behalf of entrepreneurs, technology start-ups, financial institutions, and government agencies. Passionate about pro bono work, Professor Ryu has consistently counseled small businesses and nonprofit organizations, helping them with foundational business and transactional matters to support their growth and self-sufficiency. Read Professor Ryu’s full bio.
Keisha Parker
Professor Parker teaches Legal Practice to first-year law students at NYLS. Prior to joining NYLS, Professor Parker had an extensive career in high consequence civil litigation. She was involved with a number of catastrophic injury and death cases in which a product was alleged to have been defectively or negligently designed. She has defended automobile manufacturers in high consequence design defect, crashworthiness and warranty matters, as well as manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of consumer appliances, food and beverage, medical devices, and powered industrial machinery, faced with wrongful death, personal injury, and property damage lawsuits in federal and state courts in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Read Professor Parker’s full bio.
Riti Singh
Professor Singh teaches Legal Practice to first-year law students at NYLS. Prior to NYLS, she spent twelve years as an attorney with the Juvenile Rights Practice of The Legal Aid Society, representing children in abuse, neglect, custody/guardianship, and termination of parental rights proceedings. As a Supervising Attorney in the Appeals Unit, she was responsible for drafting, filing, and arguing briefs on behalf of children in New York appellate courts, as well as developing trainings and advising attorneys on trial strategy. Before joining the Appeals Unit in 2016, Professor Singh was a trial attorney, regularly appearing in Queens County Family Court as Attorney for the Child in child protective cases. Read Professor Singh’s full bio.