Sharon A. Meadows
Professor and Director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Law Clinic
Biographical Note
Professor Meadows is the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinics. She was appointed by Chief Judge Robert Peckham of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as the compliance monitor for a Title VII Consent Decree in the construction industry. In 1994, she assisted in the establishment of a Criminal/Juvenile Law Clinic at the University of the West Cape in South Africa, and returned to South Africa in 1998 and 2002 to assist in the establishment of a pilot public defender system.
Education
BA, Cornell University
MA, Cornell University
Scholarship
Sharon
Meadows' SSRN Page
Publications
"Implementing the Right to Counsel in Post-Apartheid South Africa,"
29 George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics 453
(1995).
Presentations and Lectures
Keynote Speaker, "Representing Delinquency Clients in a Repressive Climate,"
Juvenile Justice Summit, Houston, Texas.
Keynote Speaker, "The State of Juvenile Justice," National Defender
Summit (2002).
Keynote Speaker, Suffolk Law School Juvenile Justice Forum, "The State
of Juvenile Justice in 2002," Boston, Massachusetts.
Other Activities
Participant, Open Society Institute's National Crack the Disparity Lobby Day,
Washington, DC (member of ACLU Drug Law Reform Project delegation lobbying members
of Congress about federal sentencing disparities) (April 2009).
