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Dianne Rosenfeld is a lecturer on Law and Director of the Gender Violence program at Harvard Law School. In addition Dianne supervises the Gender Violence Legal Policy Workshop where she works with Harvard law students to develop better resources towards legal policy initiative for the U. S and abroad. Prior to teaching at Harvard Dianne served as the Senior Counsel to the Violence Against Women, she also served as an Executive Assistant Attorney General in Illinois where she provided legal policy advising on women rights, environmental enforcement, and the ethics of governmental attorneys..

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