Dena Sacco

Fellow

Dena T. Sacco is an Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center and a Lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. In 2008-09, Dena will co-teach Child Exploitation, Pornography & the Internet. In past years, she has taught in the Graduate Program and in the First Year Legal Research and Writing Program. From 1999-2005, Dena was an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston, where she was the federal prosecutor with primary responsibility for all child exploitation cases in the District of Massachusetts. From 1997-1999, Dena was a Counsel in the Office of Policy Development at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC. There, she handled a variety of policy matters, including sex offender registration and community notification and vetting candidates for positions as judges in federal District Courts. Prior to working for the federal government, Dena was an associate in the employment and labor law department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Washington, DC. Dena received her B.A., cum laude, from Yale College in 1990, her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1993, and an LL.M. in European Union law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium in 1994.