Esme Caramello is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a student-run civil legal aid clinic that serves low-income and marginalized people and communities in Greater Boston. Since 2015, Esme has studied the problem of tenant blacklisting based on eviction court records and engaged in public education, litigation, and policy advocacy aimed at promoting a more rational and equitable balance between government transparency and the privacy and liberty interests of low-income people who have faced eviction. She is a co-author of “Tenant Blacklisting Based on Housing Court Records: A Survey of Approaches,” Clearinghouse Review (2017) (with Nora Mahlberg) and “The Misuse of MassCourts as a Free Tenant Screening Device,” Boston Bar Journal (2015) (with Annette Duke). Esme is a Trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation and a member of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission.
