Daniel Ellman

• Biography

  Daniel Ellman is the director of externships and an assistant professor (clinical). Prior to these appointments, Ellman taught Interviewing & Counseling and the Judicial Externship Colloquium at Wayne Law. Ellman entered academia at the University of Michigan in the Department of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His teaching career began as a bilingual fifth-grade teacher in Washington Heights, New York City as a member of Teach for America.

  After graduating law school, Ellman worked as a public defense attorney at the Bronx Defenders, the originator of holistic defense practice. In addition to litigating criminal cases, he focused on the intersection of the criminal justice system and other legal fields, including immigration, housing, employment, and family law. Ellman then clerked for the Hon. Richard H. Bernstein on the Michigan Supreme Court.

  Ellman earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where he received a merit scholarship, a public service fellowship, and an outstanding achievement scholarship. He earned a master’s in teaching from Pace University and a bachelor’s, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College.

• Degrees and Certifications

  J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  M.S., Pace University School of Education
  B.A., Dartmouth College

• Courses Taught

  Advanced Externship
  Holistic Defense Externship
  Interviewing & Counseling
  Judicial Externship: Colloquium
  Professional Responsibility and the Legal Profession

• Accomplishments
  • Dan Ellman was named director of externships and assistant professor (clinical) at Wayne State University Law School.
• Courses taught by Daniel Ellman

  Spring-Summer Term 2023 (future)

  • LEX8599 - Public Service Externship: Colloquium
  • LEX8598 - Public Service Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8516 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Colloquium
  • LEX8515 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8507 - Judicial Externship: Practicum

  Winter Term 2023 (current)

  • LEX8507 - Judicial Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8511 -
  • LEX8598 - Public Service Externship: Practicum

  Fall Term 2022

  • LEX8518 - Holistic Defense Externship: Colloquium
  • LEX8517 - Holistic Defense Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8515 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum

  Spring-Summer Term 2022

  • LEX8599 - Public Service Externship: Colloquium
  • LEX8598 - Public Service Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8515 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8507 - Judicial Externship: Practicum

  Winter Term 2022

  • LEX6800 - Professional Responsibility and the Legal Profession
  • LEX8507 - Judicial Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8511 -
  • LEX8515 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8595 - Advanced Externship
  • LEX8598 - Public Service Externship: Practicum

  Fall Term 2021

  • LEX8598 - Public Service Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8595 - Advanced Externship
  • LEX8515 - Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum
  • LEX8508 - Judicial Externship: Colloquium
  • LEX8507 - Judicial Externship: Practicum