Samantha Buckingham
Clinical Professor

Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1328
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: samantha.buckingham@lls.edu

919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211

Educational and Professional Background

BA, University of Virginia
JD, Stanford Law School

In addition to teaching classes available to all students at Loyola Law School, Samantha Buckingham teaches in the Juvenile Justice Clinic at the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy.  She teaches courses associated with the year-long clinic and supervises students who represent juvenile clients in delinquency courts in Los Angeles.    

Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola Law School in 2008, Buckingham advocated on behalf of indigent clients for five years as a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. At PDS, she represented adults and children charged as adults in criminal court with serious felonies, including homicides.  She also represented children facing delinquency adjudications in family court. As a law student, Buckingham clerked for Legal Services for Children and the Federal Public Defender, both located in San Francisco. Prior to that, she taught high school at the Maya Angelou School, a Washington D.C. charter high school for adjudicated and at-risk youth.

Professor Buckingham serves as teaching faculty for the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School and at University of Nevada at Las Vegas Law School.  Buckingham has also trained public defenders nationally.  

Courses Taught

• Juvenile Justice Clinic
• Advanced Criminal Litigation Skills
• Race, Class and Criminal Justice
• Criminal Procedure