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Andrew (Andy) Budzinski is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Elliott Milstein Civil Advocacy Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Budzinski's teaching, scholarship, and advocacy seek to promote access to justice for litigants who would otherwise lack counsel. In the Civil Advocacy Clinic, Professor Budzinski supervises students in civil cases involving survivors of intimate partner violence and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. He empowers students to grow as lawyers and advocates through zealous representation of clinic clients.

Professor Budzinski's scholarship focuses on maximizing procedural fairness for unrepresented litigants in civil courts across the country. He has also written on clinical pedagogy and technology ethics in clinical teaching. His work has been published in the University of Colorado Law Review, the University of Richmond Law Review, the Clinical Law Review, and the University of Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. He has served as a faculty presenter for the D.C. Bar’s Continuing Legal Education class on civil protection order litigation and edits the D.C. Bar’s Practice Manual chapter on domestic violence.

Prior to joining the faculty at the American University Washington College of Law, Professor Budzinski co-directed the General Practice Clinic at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. He has also taught and supervised in George Washington University School of Law’s Family Justice Litigation Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center’s Domestic Violence Clinic, and Washington & Lee University Law School’s Community Legal Practice Center. He served as a law clerk to Judge Roy W. McLeese III on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Professor Budzinski graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Washington & Lee University, where he earned a B.A. in Politics and a B.A. in Music Composition. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor for Michigan Law Review. He received his L.L.M. in Advocacy, with distinction, from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Budzinski is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and the Virginia State Bar.