Degrees

M.A.,1998, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., 2002, Seattle University Law School

Short Bio

Davida Finger joined the Loyola Law School Clinic in 2006 to work with the Katrina Clinic. She now teaches the Community Justice Clinic and the Law & Poverty course. In collaboration with community organizations, Professor Finger has worked extensively on disaster-related cases and policy matters to improve government accountability in rebuilding and on distribution of disaster funds. Prior to joining the clinical faculty at Loyola, she practiced law in Seattle focusing on consumer, land use, and human rights cases.

During 2008-09, Professor Finger was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School and an “Effective Leadership” fellow with Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in its inaugural program for emerging Louisiana leaders. She is also a 2009 teaching fellow with the Neighborhood Partnership Network’s first capacity college in New Orleans designed to develop community members’ advocacy and organizing skills. Seattle University Law School named her an inspiring alum in 2007.

While in law school, Davida was the founding Editor in Chief of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice and Associate Editor on the Seattle University Law Review. At graduation, she received the Faculty Scholar Award for excellence in high academic achievement and substantial service to the law school community.

Publications

• Stranded and Squandered: Lost on the Road Home, 7 SEATTLE J. SOC. JUST. 59 (2008).
• The Challenges of Sudden Natural Disasters for Land Administration and Management: The Case of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, J. David Stanfield, ed. (contributor to case study submitted to the United Nations-Habitat Program) (April 2008).
• Post-Hurricane Housing Demolition in the City of New Orleans, 53 LOY. L. REV. 891 (2007).