Evangeline Sarda is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. She has been teaching in the Criminal Justice Clinic and directing the Prosecution Program since 1995. She also has taught Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility and Authority, Identity and the Psychodynamics of Legal Systems.

In 2001, Professor Sarda received a Boston College Teaching Advising and Mentoring Grant to pursue work in the field of group relations. As a result, she created and continues to teach Authority and Leadership in Professional Life which draws from group relations theory and methodology to explore the conscious and unconscious dynamics of legal systems and lawyering. In spring 2006, she received a Boston College Teaching Advising and Mentoring Expense Grant to host the first group relations workshop “Negotiating Meaning of Authority and Justice” (director, Anat Ziff) for BCLS students. The workshop took place at the law school in April, 2006. She coordinated a second group relations learning event under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems called “Flying the Plane While Reading the Manual: The Challenge of Getting the Task Done While Learning to Do It” (director, Earl Braxton) which took place in spring 2007 at the Boston College Connors Family Retreat and Conference Center.

Professor Sarda received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a founding member of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and the Executive Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. After law school, she was an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts with the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, working primarily in the Domestic Violence Unit.

Professor Sarda is married and is the mother of three wonderful children. .

EDUCATION

B.A., Yale University; J.D., Columbia University.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations:

“Capturing and Critiquing Student Performance: Some Psychodynamic Aspects of Interviewing” (panel/presentation), conference on The Pedagogy of Interviewing and Counseling: Models, Techniques and Technology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, October, 2006.

“What the Annual Public Interest Law Retreat Holds for the Law School,” Public Interest Law Retreat, Dover, MA, September, 2006.

“Identity and/in Law Firm Culture,” BCLS, Newton MA, April 2006.

“A Group Relations Approach to Teaching Professionalism to Clinical Law Students,” Association of American Law Schools Annual Clinical Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 2003.

“Conference Experiences and the Application of Group Relations Work to Professional Life,” Boston Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2002.

Small group leader, Association of American Law Schools Annual Clinical Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 2001.

“Clinical Methodology and the Presentation of Race and Ethnicity Issues,” Association of American Law Schools Annual Clinical Conference, New Mexico, May 2000.

“Clinical Methodology and the Presentation of Asian Pacific American Issues,” Fifth Annual Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, Newton, Massachusetts, October 1998.

Consulting Staff:

Associate Director for Administration, “Flying the Plane While Reading the Manual: The Challenge of Getting the Task Done While Learning to Do It,” Dover, MA, March, 2007.

Consulting Staff, “Experiencing Leadership: Negotiating Boundaries, Authority, Role, and Task in Organizations,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March, 2007.

Consulting Staff, “Leadership and the Dynamics of Dissent in Organizational Life,” Calvary Retreat Center, Shrewsbury, MA, January, 2007.

Consulting Staff, "The Intercultural Exploration," American University, Washington, DC, June 2006. Administrator, "Negotiating Meaning of Authority and Justice," Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, April 2006.

Consulting Staff, "Group Dynamics Workshop," Miramar College, California, January 2006.

Consulting Staff, “Cooperation or Conflict: Leadership and Accountability in A Confusing and Perilous World,” Boston, MA, October 2005.

Consulting Staff, “Embracing A World Of Difference: A Working Group Relations Conference on Exploring and Transforming Authority Relations,” New York, NY, April 2005.

Consulting Staff, “Trust and Betrayal, The Exercise of Authority and Leadership in an Insecure World,” Holyoke, MA, January 2004.

Appointments:

Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems (the Boston Affiliate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems) June 2003-June 2007.

COURSES

Fall '07: Criminal Justice Clinic
Spring '08: Advanced Criminal Justice: Prosecutors Clinic; Authority & Leadership/ Professional Life; Criminal Justice Clinic