Law

Director of the Children's Law Center Clinic
Assistant Professor of Law

Profile

Amy E. Halbrook is the Director of the NKU Chase Children's Law Center Clinic, a partnership between the College of Law and the Children's Law Center in Covington, Kentucky. Clinic students receive specialized instruction in child and family law and advocacy and represent child and youth clients in court. The Clinic is housed in a fully-equipped model law office on the third floor of the Children's Law Center.

Professor Halbrook has represented clients in a wide range of court proceedings, including child welfare, high-conflict custody, juvenile delinquency, school discipline and special education matters. Before joining the Chase faculty, Professor Halbrook was a clinical teaching fellow in the Northwestern University School of Law's Children and Family Justice Center where she, together with senior law students, assisted young people who were petitioning the court to be removed from the Illinois Sex Offender Registry. Before that, she was a clinical teaching fellow in the Loyola University Chicago Civitas ChildLaw Clinic where she taught in the ChildLaw Clinic course and supervised students in child protection, high-conflict custody, delinquency, civil rights, and school matters. She has also taught child law trial practice in New York, Ohio and Illinois.

Before law school, Professor Halbrook was the Director of Youth Services for the Donald P. McCullum Youth Court in Oakland, California. Stemming from that work, some of her interests include positive youth development, balanced and restorative justice, and community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Latest Publications

Advocating for Children in Care in a Climate of Economic Recession: Responsibilities and Challenges, 6 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y 300 (2011) (co-authored with B. Boyer)

Latest Presentations

Presenter, Ethics for the Juvenile Defender: Case Studies (with A. Smith)
Indiana Juvenile Public Defender Conference, Indianapolis, IN (October 2011)

Visiting Faculty
Ohio Juvenile Public Defender Conference, Dayton, OH (May 2011)

Presenter, Juvenile Sex Offender Registry Termination in Illinois
Illinois State Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting, Chicago, IL (January 2011)

Visiting Faculty, Introduction to Child Protection Matters (with M. Burns)
Loyola University Chicago Children's Summer Institute, Chicago, IL (May 2010)

Visiting Faculty, ChildLaw Trial Practice, January 2009 and 2010
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL (2010)

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