About

Sara S. Hildebrand is an Assistant Professor of Law and teaches Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law. Her scholarship focuses on racial disparities in the criminal legal system and how they fundamentally undermine the fairness of proceedings in that system. Her scholarship has been published in the Penn State Law Review, the Villanova Law Review. She has a forthcoming piece that will be published in the Mississippi Law Journal.

Professor Hildebrand joined the faculty from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she was a Christopher N. Lasch Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Criminal Defense Clinic and earned an LL.M. In that role, she supervised students in their representations of clients charged with misdemeanor and municipal ordinance violations in county and municipal courts around the Denver metro area.

Professor Hildebrand began her legal career as a public defender in the Colorado State Public Defender system, a role in which she represented clients charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, first in the Durango regional trial office and then in the Arapahoe County trial office.