Thomas Silverstein

Thomas Silverstein is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Associate Director of the Fair Housing & Community Development Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He supervises legal staff on matters of impact litigation related to the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Silverstein joined the Lawyers’ Committee as a George N. Lindsay Fellow. He regularly speaks at professional conferences and forums, which have included including those held by the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing & Community Development Law. Silverstein is a member of the bars of New York, the District of Columbia, and Maryland, and he is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of New York, and the District of the District of Columbia, and the Western District of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Maryland School of Law as an Adjunct Clinical Professor from 2019 through 2022. In 2022, Silverstein received the Shaping Justice Rising Star Award from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he graduated in 2013.