Andrew Scherer, Esq.
New York Law School
Andrew Scherer is the Policy Director of the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Law School, where he teaches Land Use Regulation. He also directs the Impact Center’s Right to Counsel Project.
Professor Scherer is the author of the treatise, Residential Landlord-Tenant Law in New York (Thomson Reuters), originally published in 1994 and updated annually, and of numerous law review articles and other published works.
In 2010, Professor Scherer stepped down after nine years as Executive Director of Legal Services NYC, the largest nonprofit exclusively devoted to civil legal services in the United States, where he had worked in a variety of capacities since 1978.
Professor Scherer is also an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and has taught at CUNY Law School, NYU Law School (in the Root-Tilden public interest scholars program), Yangon University in Myanmar, and Bennington College.
He has lectured widely in the U.S. and in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
He received his JD from NYU Law School and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and. He is fluent in Spanish.