Faculty and Administration Profiles

Samantha Reed

About

Samantha R. Reed serves as an adjunct professor teaching Prisoner Constitutional Rights Litigation.

Ms. Reed is also a staff attorney in the Corrections Reform Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. She litigates civil rights cases on behalf of people involved in the criminal legal system, including the Lippert v. Jeffreys class action advocating for systemic improvements in medical care in the Illinois Department of Corrections. She formerly served as pro bono staff associate at Dentons LLP handling a similar caseload, including two major class action cases involving medical and mental health treatment in Illinois prisons (Lippert v. Jeffreys and Rasho v. Jeffreys), and individual cases challenging prison and jail conditions, inadequate medical and mental health treatment, use of force, excessive parole, and other issues.

Samantha has also worked as a fellow at Equip for Equality, a clerk for a magistrate judge in the Northern District of Illinois, and as a Staff Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Degrees

JD, UC Berkeley School of Law
BS, Social Policy, Northwestern University

Professional Employment

Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU

Courses Taught

Prisoners' Constitutional Rights Litigation