Following graduation from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Professor Dyson practiced law with the firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Professor Dyson has also participated in the landmark school finance litigation and in federal civil rights enforcement as the Special Projects Enforcement Counsel for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) where he was recognized for his work in inter-district funding cases.  A member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, he has also served as the national chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Education Law, and a program coordinator of the Merrill Lynch Philanthropic Foundation recognized by the White House.  In addition, he has served as educational policy adviser to the Texas State Legislature Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance, as a Commissioner on Facial Recognition Technology in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and an expert panelist to the National Institute of Science and Technology. He has served as an assistant to President Nelson Mandela in post-apartheid reinvestment and is also the co-founder of the Crawford Legal Institute Mentorship Bond (CLIMB) program, an educational pipeline mentorship initiative with Crawford High School that won the California State Bar Diversity Award for Excellence.  Mr. Dyson has extensive experience representing major institutions and a variety of clients.