Avidan Y. Cover, Practitioner-in-Residence, directs the Urban Revitalization Project within the Center for Social Justice. His focus is on civil rights, housing, education and police reform.  He also teaches Persuasion and Advocacy and assists in teaching the Civil Litigation Clinic. Prior to joining the Seton Hall Law School faculty in 2009, Mr. Cover was a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons P.C.  During his fellowship, Mr. Cover represented a wide array of clients, focusing on issues of police misconduct, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, prisoners’ rights, and education finance.  From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Cover worked at Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights) as a Senior Associate and Senior Counsel in the Law and Security Program, where he litigated, researched, and advocated against U.S. counterterrorism practices and policies, including detention, interrogation and military commissions.  In addition, Mr. Cover served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department World Trade Center Unit, litigating numerous claims, in particular municipal liability and federal preemption, arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Cover was a Teach for America corps member in Washington, D.C., where he taught middle school social studies.  Mr. Cover received his B.A. in Religion from Princeton University and graduated cum laude from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. Representative Publications: Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects, Human Rights First (March 2008) (co-author with Deborah Colson) While Congress Slept, Human Rights Magazine, American Bar Association (Winter 2006) (co-author with Elisa Massimino) ‘There Are No Rules Here:’ A Visitor’s Guide to Guantanamo and the Military Commissions, SAMAR (Sept. 26, 2006) (co-author with Priti Patel) A Rule Unfit for All Seasons: Monitoring of Attorney-Client Communication Violates the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Sixth Amendment, 87 Cornell Law Review 1233 (2002) Is the ‘Adequacy’ Standard a More Political Question than the ‘Equality’ Standard?: The Effect of Standards-Based Education on Judicial Standards for Education Finance Litigation, 11 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 403 (2002)