Mai Linh Spencer

Bio

Mai Linh Spencer spent five years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, prosecuting federal criminal civil rights violations, including excessive forces, racial violence, and trafficking cases. After moving to the Bay Area, she represented capital and non-capital defendants on direct appeal and habeas as a Deputy State Public Defender. Spencer first came to UC Hasting in 2009 as a Clinical Teaching Fellow and has since held a variety of positions. She is now the Academic Director of the Lawyers for America program and also teaches the Individual Representation Clinic, Evidence, Legal Externship seminar, and Essential Lawyering Skills.

Education

• New York University School of Law
  J.D., Law 1997

• Amherst College
  B.A., Women's Studies and English 1989

Selected Scholarship

• Suppress or Suspend: New York's Exclusionary Rule in School Disciplinary Proceedings
  New York University Law Review 1997

• Supreme Court Erodes NPC Doctrine
  The Recorder 2012

• Curbing the NPC Doctrine
  The Daily Journal 2014