Faculty Profile

Prof. Dorn was graduated from Boston College Law School in 1985, whereupon she began private practice of law with the firm of Nutter, McClennen and Fish.  After seven years as a corporate litigator, Prof. Dorn accepted an offer to direct programs for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Boston.  As program director, Prof. Dorn instituted and facilitated development and fact-finding projects dealing with partner countries.  Her work took her to South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. 

Prof. Dorn began her teaching career in 1994 at Suffolk University Law School, where she continued her specialization in international law.  She founded and directed the International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Project, a clinical program geared toward providing students with real world experience in Human Rights Law.  Prof Dorn and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1998, moving her academic career to Loyola Law School.  She is delighted to be back in New England and teaching at Merrimack College.  Currently, she teaches a course on Gender and the Law.

In addition to teaching, Prof. Dorn is a principal in “The New Having It All,” an education and resource company dedicated to working with women in all age groups who wish to devise strategies for successful work/home balance.