Diana Newmark

Diana Newmark is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law and the founding director of the Education Advocacy Clinic, which provides legal services to families and children in special education and school discipline matters. Her teaching and research interests include education law, juvenile law, and children’s rights. She is the 2024 recipient of the James E. Rogers College of Law’s Distinguished Public Service Scholar Award and a co-director of the Family & Juvenile Law Certificate Program.

Previously, Professor Newmark was a staff attorney at the Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she represented children in abuse and neglect proceedings. She also served as a Skadden Fellow at The Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, New York, where she represented court-involved children in school discipline and special education matters. She joined the Arizona Law faculty from Harvard Law School, where she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law.

Professor Newmark received her JD, cum laude, from New York University School of Law and BA in philosophy from Columbia University. Before attending law school, she taught special education for four years in the Bronx, New York.  

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Media

• “Displacement of students, school evaluations violate federal law, Arizona education agency says,” Associated Press, July 28, 2026
• “ASDB Move Violated Federal Law,” Arizona Daily Star, July 24, 2026, A1
• “State orders ASDB to review student placements after law violation,” KVOA News, July 22, 2026
• “Federal cuts leave many Arizona special education students without oversight,” KOLD News, December 5, 2025
• “How an Arizona School’s Response to a Perceived Gun Threat Upended a 12-year-old’s Life,” Arizona Republic, April 16, 2024 

Representative Publications

• The Power to Expel, 36 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal __ (2027)
• Arizona’s Unbridled Expulsion Power, 19 Government Law Review __ (2026)
• The Illusion of Due Process in School Discipline, 32 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 343 (2023)