Professor Aviel is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Barry Silverman of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced in the litigation department of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. She also spent two years as a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit, specializing in civil rights, immigration, habeas corpus, and criminal appeals.

She is the author of Compulsory Education and Substantive Due Process: Asserting Student Rights to a Safe and Healthy School Environment, 10 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 201 (2006). Works in progress include The Unfortunate Necessity of Absolute Immunity: Incentivizing Social Workers in DeShaney’s Long Shadow, as well as a piece entitled The Elective Constitution: Trading Rights in Private Cities.

Professor Aviel’s research and teaching interests include family law, legal profession and professional responsibility, constitutional law, and civil procedure.