Leaders of former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) have already landed gigs at prominent universities.

Officials behind the Biden DOJ’s most controversial actions — including leveraging the law to push abortion and prosecute pro-life activists, investigating President Donald Trump, and advancing left-wing activist causes through litigation — quickly made the jump to teaching law students.

Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke will join Penn Carey Law to teach a federal civil rights law boot camp during the spring semester, according to a Feb. 10 news release. She is also joining the Howard University School of Law to “conduct research and engage with the Howard Law community on racial justice and civil rights, particularly around intersections with technologies such as artificial intelligence,” according to a Feb. 18 press release.

Under Clarke, the civil rights division targeted pro-life activists using the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act for protests at abortion clinics. Trump pardoned these pro-life activists, including those serving jail time, during his first week in office.

Her department led the DOJ’s charge on opposing state-level bans on child sex change procedures.

Clarke’s civil rights division also targeted fire and police stations with disparate impact lawsuits when female applicants underperformed on physical tests and black applicants disproportionately failed the written tests.

“I look forward to working with students and faculty, inside and outside the classroom, to help equip future lawyers with the tools necessary to address modern-day discrimination and other 21st-century challenges,” Clarke said in a statement regarding her role at Penn Carey Law.

Lisa Monaco, who was deputy attorney general under Biden, rejoined NYU Law, where she was a distinguished senior fellow working with the school’s Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Center for Cybersecurity before taking a position in the Biden administration.

As the number two official at Biden’s DOJ, Monaco was involved in the DOJ’s Jan. 6 investigations and the early stages of what became special counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump.

Last year, former Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta also joined NYU Law. Gupta led the DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Taskforce, which targeted abortion restrictions in conservative states.

Before joining the Biden administration, Gupta helped teach NYU Law’s Racial Justice Clinic and was a member of the school’s board of trustees.

Elizabeth Prelogar, who served as solicitor general, is now the Steven and Maureen Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress at Harvard Law, according to the school’s website.

Prelogar argued the most consequential cases of the Biden administration before the Supreme Court, defending abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, backing Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in Biden v. Nebraska, and urging the justices to rule against Tennessee’s ban on child sex change procedures in United States v. Skrimetti.

The justices have yet to rule in the Skrmetti case, which they heard oral arguments for in December. The Trump DOJ announced that it changed the government’s position in January but said the high court should still rule on the dispute.

Kristen Clarke, Lisa Monaco, Vanita Gupta, and Elizabeth Prelogar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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