Gail Hupper

Gail Hupper is a lawyer in the Boston area, representing nonprofit organizations, their Boards and their founders. She previously spent 25 years in graduate and international legal education, including service as Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and subsequently as the founding Director of LL.M. and International Programs at Boston College Law School. While at Boston College, she served on a special Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts task force on the admission of foreign-trained lawyers to the Massachusetts bar.

Gail has taught introductory courses in U.S. law at both Harvard and Boston College, served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre, and lectured on U.S. law and legal education at universities in Europe, South America and Asia. Her scholarship includes a book-length study on the evolution of U.S. doctoral programs in law.

Gail holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Before entering academia, she practiced corporate and securities law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Hale and Dorr (now Wilmer Hale) in Boston, among other activities.

Gail first served as an Access to Justice Fellow in 2019-20, advising One Can Help, a Massachusetts nonprofit, on corporate governance and compliance matters. As an outgrowth of that work, she joined One Can Help’s Board of Directors in 2021.

For her current Fellowship project, Gail will partner with the Lawyers Clearinghouse Nonprofit Assistance Program to update and enhance the program’s resources for nonprofits, and provide advice to founders and existing nonprofits on governance, tax exemption and related matters.