Professor J. Amy Dillard is a member of the permanent law faculty at the University of Baltimore, and she has taught at Indiana University, Maurer School of Law and American University, Washington College of Law. She spent the first decade of her legal career as the Deputy Public Defender of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, and she still serves as counsel for a defendant charged with capital murder in Virginia.
Professor Dillard actively consults with and supports the work of the Prosecutorial Accountability Project at Civil Rights Corps, and her scholarship focuses on prosecutorial accountability, police reform, and mental illness in criminal law. She is currently working on a book project that considers the inequities of professional attire demands on women and gender queer trial lawyers. The project stems from Professor Dillard's Repository Research Fellowship with the Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection at Indiana University. Professor Dillard is building a repository of images and oral histories, and you can visit the start of that repository project on Instagram @StartWithTheClothes.
Professor Dillard teaches criminal law; constitutional criminal procedure; introduction to lawyering skills; a #MeToo seminar; a race, crime, and media seminar; professional responsibility; and torts.