Emily Hughes
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 557
Phone: (314) 935-6452
E-mail: eahughes@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Pam Finnigan - (314) 935-6419
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Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Justice Clinic
Education
B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Profile
Professor Emily Hughes joins us after teaching at two other law schools, Iowa and DePaul. At DePaul, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases, where she taught a substantive seminar on death penalty jurisprudence and supervised students working on pending capital cases. At Iowa, Professor Hughes taught several courses in an adjunct capacity, including Criminal Procedure (Investigations and Adjudication), Professional Responsibility, Client Counseling, and Trial Advocacy. She has also taught capital trial advocacy at the Clarence Darrow Death Penalty Defense College (co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and DePaul).
Professor Hughes received her B.A. in English with High Honors from the University of Michigan. She received her law degree, cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Michigan Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy (then Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa; now serving on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals); she was a Sacks Fellow at Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Institute; and she worked as a state public defender in Iowa. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Hughes received a Masters Degree in International Relations from Yale University, where she was a Hochschild Fellow. She also taught undergraduate writing at the University of Michigan, where she continued to teach while she was in law school.