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Amy Halbrook

Amy Halbrook
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Experiential Learning
Director of the Children's Law Center Clinic

 

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Amy Halbrook is a Professor of Law and the Director of the NKU Chase Children's Law Center Clinic, a partnership between Chase College of Law and the Children's Law Center in Covington, Kentucky. She has represented clients in a wide range of court proceedings, including child protection, high-conflict custody, juvenile justice, school discipline, and special education matters.   

Professor Halbrook teaches the Children’s Law Center Clinic course, Family Law, Juvenile Law, Children and the Law, Mediation (Family-Focused) and Client-Centered Practice.  She is the faculty sponsor of the Chase Child and Family Law Certificate of Concentration. Professor Halbrook’s scholarly interests include juvenile justice reform, children’s rights, restorative justice and professional responsibility.  She has served as a trial skills trainer for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the American Bar Association and the Gault Center (formerly the National Juvenile Defender Center).  She is also a trained mediator who serves as faculty in the NKU Alternative Dispute Center's mediator training programs. 

Professor Halbrook attended the University of California at Berkeley and Northwestern University School of Law.  Before joining the Chase faculty, she worked as a commercial litigator in Chicago and completed clinical fellowships in Loyola University Chicago’s Civitas ChildLaw Clinic and Northwestern University School of Law's Children and Family Justice Center. She is the current Board Chair of Community and Restorative Justice-Covington, an organization that helps build communities and facilitates peace-making circles in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky area.    

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