Alexander Rundlet has a range of public policy and legal experience spanning over two decades that provides a foundation for understanding how our historical and current system of common, statutory, and regulatory laws, policies, and norms impact our current and future social context.
He joins the Center for Ethics and Public Service as the Fredman Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence where he will help supervise law student fellows and interns participating in education, research, policy, and advocacy projects in the fields of housing, health, and community equity.
"I am honored to be joining the University of Miami Law School community and I am extremely excited to be working with the staff and fellows at the Center for Ethics and Public Service," said Rundlet. "The Center's Health Disparities and Housing and Community Economic Development Projects, among others, address urgent community needs. I am looking forward to building on the Center's tradition of pairing a vision of transformative lawyering with community impact in these and other areas."
Founded in 1996, CEPS is a law school-housed ethics education, experiential skills training, and community engagement program devoted to ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. The Center's mission is to educate law students to serve their communities as citizen lawyers.
Rundlet is a partner in the law firm of Rundlet Advisory PLLC, with offices in New York and Miami. He leads the firm's civil society consulting practice. He is a public policy-trained lawyer and consultant with decades of experience working to strengthen our constitutional system and the rule of law by addressing the legal needs of marginalized communities, neutralizing power imbalances, and reducing economic inequality.
Before law school, Rundlet was a health education volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, where he provided health care to a population of approximately 50,000. He was a Public Interest Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a federal judicial clerk, and a Soros Post–Graduate Justice Fellow.
Rundlet worked as a staff attorney at Southern Center for Human Rights. He represented individuals in misdemeanor and felony cases and on death row in Georgia and Alabama in capital post-conviction proceedings. He presently serves on the board of SCHR.
As a Soros Fellow, Rundlet also was a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Indigent Defense Committee and worked with a coalition of lawyers who, through a coordinated campaign of class action litigation, public education, and lobbying efforts in the Georgia General Assembly, brought about sweeping criminal justice reform in Georgia. He has worked as a public defender in Miami, as a civil rights and general service lawyer throughout Florida, and in national and international private practice.
Among his consulting roles are providing research and strategic planning services related to structural democratic reform for Democracy Fund Voice, a national 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to addressing systemic democratic reforms at the state and federal levels; providing landscape analysis research for a national civil rights organization on issues of mass incarceration, poverty eradication, civic engagement, and combating white nationalism; and serving as acting director of Florida Memorial University's Social Justice Institute, a nascent Black think tank and policy institute at South Florida's only historically Black university.
“Alex brings extraordinary professional skills and a broad range of legal and public policy expertise to the center’s projects," said Anthony Alfieri, director of CEPS. "His long standing and distinguished work in the field of civil rights and his leadership in higher education will enable our fellows and interns to better understand the rich public service traditions of the legal profession and better collaborate with our community partners in advancing civil rights in Florida."
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