Elizabeth Isaacs

Elizabeth Isaacs is an Appellate Attorney at the Statewide Appellate Support Center, where she focuses on Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act and other post-conviction and resentencing support services. For two years, Elizabeth worked as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor in the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic at Brooklyn Law School and as a Teaching and Advocacy Fellow with the Survivors Justice Project, where she remains a member of the Advisory Group. She supervised and litigated DVSJA resentencing motions and other forms of decarceration advocacy and engaged with SJP’s interdisciplinary advocacy collective on policy initiatives. Prior to specializing in survivors justice work, Elizabeth worked as a Staff Attorney and then a Supervising Attorney at the Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau for seven years. Elizabeth clerked for Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals and worked as a Litigation Associate at Bingham McCutchen, LLP after obtaining a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.