Katrina Angela Pagonis

Assistant Professor
Email: kpagonis01@gw.hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2843

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

LL.M., Yale Law School,

Master of Public Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor Pagonis comes to Hamline immediately following two clerkships for federal judges based in Nevada: U.S. Circuit Judge Procter R. Hug., Jr. of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Judge Edward C. Reed, Jr. She was a teaching fellow at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law in 2007-08 at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned her JD in 2005. She also earned an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School, an MPH degree from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in both political science, and molecular and cell biology.

While at Georgetown University Law Center, she served as a research assistant for Professor Lawrence O. Gostin in the Center for Law and Public Health. Professor Pagonis also did clinical work at the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown and was a student researcher at the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Project at Yale Law School.

Earlier, Professor Pagonis was a legal intern for the Equal Opportunities Commission in Manchester, England in 2002, where she conducted original research on pregnancy-related sex discrimination in employment. Her report, Pregnancy-Related Discrimination in Employment: A Review of Employment Tribunal Decisions from November 1999 through April 2002 is used in formal investigations on the issue in Britain.

She has served as a guest lecturer at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Georgetown University Law Center and American University. She has co-authored several professional papers, including Ensuring Effective Pain Treatment: A National and Global Perspective in JAMA (2008), with other works in progress.

 

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