Emily Chiang
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Chiang received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a primary editor for the Harvard Law Review. She spent several years doing complex civil litigation at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City and, while at Cravath, was a member of the legal team that successfully procured indigent defense reform in Montana. She then worked as a civil rights lawyer for the Brennan Center for Justice at N.Y.U. School of Law, and for the American Civil Liberities Union National Legal Department, where she successfully sued the Atlanta public school system over an alternative school that had been outsourced to a private for-profit company.
Professor Chiang joined the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 2009 to build a civil rights clinic. She teaches a Civil Rights Practicum, Lawyering Skills, and Constitutional Law II.
Scholarship Highlights
Articles
Indigent Defense Invigorated: A Uniform Standard for Adjudicating Pre-Conviction Sixth Amendment Claims, Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010)
Think Locally, Act Globally?: Dormant Federal Common Law Preemption of State and Local Activities Affecting Foreign Affairs, 53 Syracuse L. Rev. 923 (2003)
Case Comment - United States v. Wardlow, 120 S.Ct. 673 (2000), 114 Harv. L. Rev. 209 (2000)
Recent Case - United States v. Dickerson, 166 F.3d 667 (4th Cir. 1999), 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1039 (2000)
Other Publications
Know Your Rights card for juveniles, available at: http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/crimjustice/know_your_rights.pdf
Evaluating Juvenile Justice in Ohio: A Report Card, available at: http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/racialjustice/ohreportcard_20090210.pdf
Eligible for Justice: Guidelines for Appointing Defense Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice (2008)
Selected Talks and Presentations
U.S. Department of Justice National Symposium on Indigent Defense, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2010
Moderator, Ensuring Quality Representation: The Critical Role of the Court
Utah State Bar Summer Convention, Sun Valley, ID, July 2009
Presenter, The State of Indigent Defense Services in Utah
Challenging the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Harms and Remedies, New York Law School, New York, NY, Apr. 2009
Panelist, Disciplinary Alternative Schools
ACLU of Utah Presentation of Freedom to Learn: The School to Prison Pipeline, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2008
Panelist
ACLU Membership Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2008
Moderator and Panelist, Challenging the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Testimony before the Nevada Supreme Court, Las Vegas, NV, Dec. 2007
Indigent Defense Reform
Ohio Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit, Columbus, OH, May 2007
Moderator and Presenter, 40 Years After In re Gault
School-to-Prison-Pipeline Leadership Conference, Fordham Law School, New York, NY, Apr. 2007
Panelist, Impact Litigation to Combat Disciplinary Alternative Schools
Testimony presented to the New York State Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services, Rochester, NY, Mar. 2005
Presenter, Funding for New York State Indigent Defense Services