Professor Larisa G. Bowman earned her BA from Brown University in 2003 and then her JD from Stanford Law School in 2009. Upon graduation, she worked as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Ralph D. Grants of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and the Honorable William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Professor Bowman then held several positions in California, Massachusetts, and New York as a housing attorney focused on eviction defense for low-income tenants. She has supervised second- and third-year students at the Stanford Community Law Clinic and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in their housing practice areas. Professor Bowman began teaching as a Visiting Associate Professor at Iowa Law in the Fall semester of 2020. She is currently the inaugural Court Innovation Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and the Project Fellow for the American Law Institute’s “Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication” project.

Professor Bowman's most recent publications include Eviction Abolition, 55 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 541 (2024) (forthcoming); Lawyers Aren’t Rent, 75 Stan. L. Rev. Online 132 (2023) (with Juliet M. Brodie); and Remembering Chief Justice Gants as a Champion for Housing Justice, 62 B.C.L. Rev. 2840 (2021) (with Esme Caramello & Nicole Summers).

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Research and Teaching:

• Housing Law
• Eviction Defense
• Experiential Learning
• Poverty Law
• Public Interest Lawyering

Awards and Honors: 

• Skadden Fellowship, 2011-13
• Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, 2009
• Lisa M. Schnitzer Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service, 2007

Affiliations: 

• Iowa Bar
• New York Bar
• California Bar (inactive)
• Massachusetts Bar (inactive)