Richard Marsico is Professor of Law and Director of the Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School.  He teaches Constitutional Law, the Impact Center Colloquium, Professional Responsibility, Special Education Law and Practice, Torts, and Race, Bias, and Advocacy.

Marsico is the founder and board member of The Charter High School for Law and Social Justice in the Bronx, New York.  He also served as president of the Mamaroneck Union Free District School Board.

Marsico is the author of law review articles about community reinvestment and home mortgage lending, clinical teaching, and special education,  as well as two books, Special Education Law and  Practice:  Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2017), and Democratizing Capital:  The History, Law, and Reform of the Community Reinvestment Act (Carolina Academic Press 2005).

Marsico graduated from Fordham  University, summa cum laude, in 1982, with majors in philosophy and history.  He was the editor-in-chief of The Ram, Fordham’s student newspaper.  He graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1985, where he was the executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Following law school, Marsico was a law clerk to Hon. Shirley Wohl Kram in the Southern District of New York.  He then worked as an attorney in the Bronx neighborhood office of the civil division of the Legal Aid society, where he specialized in class action litigation,  housing court litigation, and representing tenant associations in rent strikes, repair cases, and urban homesteading efforts before he moved to New York Law School where he has been since 1990.