Jenny M. Roberts
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Office: Room 448
Phone: 202-274-4298
E-mail: jenny@wcl.american.edu
Professor Roberts is a Visiting Professor of Law with the Criminal Justice Clinic in 2009-2010. She is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at Syracuse University College of Law. Before joining the Syracuse faculty, Professor Roberts was a Senior Research Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for Research in Crime & Justice. She was previously a member of the NYU faculty where she taught for three years in the first-year Lawyering Program. Professor Roberts worked as a trial trainer and a staff attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. Just before joining Legal Aid, she was a law clerk for Judge John S. Martin in the Southern District of New York. Professor Roberts graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays civil rights and civil liberties fellow and a Notes and Comments editor for the NYU Law Review.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., New York University School of Law 1995
- B.A., Yale University 1987