Phil M. Genty Columbia Law School

Phil M. Genty is the Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor Emeritus in Professional Responsibility at Columbia Law School. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1989, and he taught the Incarceration and the Family Clinic, as well as civil procedure and professional responsibility. He helped launch and continues to be actively involved with the Paralegal Pathways Initiative, a program that prepares justice-impacted individuals for careers in legal workplaces. He served as Vice Dean for Experiential Education from 2021 to 2023. His research interests are in legal ethics, prisoners’ rights, family law, and clinical education. He has taught and consulted on legal ethics and clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe and Israel. He received a Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2014, and Columbia Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2008. He took emeritus status in 2024.