emily.coward

Emily Coward joined the School of Government’s Indigent Defense Education team in 2012. Previously, she served as a law clerk for Judge James Robertson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for Justice Thembile Skweyiya of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Additionally, as a staff attorney with North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, she represented clients in civil and post-conviction matters. As a student at Duke University School of Law, she served as lead articles editor for Law and Contemporary Problems and received the faculty award for outstanding achievement in criminal law and procedure. She is co-author of Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases, for which she received the Margaret Taylor Writing Award in 2015. Coward earned a BA from Oberlin College and a JD magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law.