Biography
Amy Fusting teaches legal research and writing. She views the practice of law as a profound vocation and trusts that her lifelong dedication to the public good will inspire her students to believe in a lawyer’s innate ability to make a difference.
While attending law school, she worked full time as a Staff Assistant to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. As an aide to the Senator, she participated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1990, and the confirmation hearings of David Souter and Clarence Thomas, when they were each nominated to be Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.
After graduating, she worked as an Assistant Public Defender for the State of Maryland and was named Outstanding Assistant Public Defender from Montgomery County. She later worked as a Legislative Staff Attorney for the Office of the Public Defender. For several years she acted as Program Director for a non-profit seeking to end capital punishment in Maryland. As Special Assistant to Maryland’s Secretary of Labor she was integral to the creation and implementation of EARN Maryland, a nationally recognized workforce initiative. In 2014, she was named an Influential Marylander in Law by the editors of the Maryland Daily Record. Most recently she served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland.
In the fall of 2022, she began her teaching career as a Visiting Assistant Professor of legal writing at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Professor Fusting’s ongoing research draws from her observations as a public lawyer and explores the way the law is experienced by the poor.
