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Sarah Schrup

Sarah O'Rourke Schrup
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Appellate Advocacy Program

Phone: (312) 503-0063
E-mail: s-schrup@law.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Before joining the Northwestern faculty, Professor Schrup served as a law clerk in the Seventh Circuit and for the Honorable Ruben Castillo in the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Schrup also spent four years teaching Appellate Advocacy at Loyola Law School, where she customized a course on child advocacy for Loyola's child-law fellows. In addition, Ms. Schrup was a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, focusing primariliy on commercial, employment and securities matters.

Beginning in Fall 2006, Ms. Schrup will be starting a new clinical offering at the Law School that focuses on advanced appellate advocacy. Students in the course will have the opportunity to brief and argue criminal appeals before the Seventh Circuit. She also will be co-teaching the new Supreme Court Clinic during the 2006-2007 academic year.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Legal Research
  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Legal Writing

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

  • The Clinical Divide: Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration Between Clinics and Legal Writing Programs , CLINICAL LAW REVIEW , 2007

EDUCATION

  • BS magna cum laude, Georgetown University
  • JD, University of Michigan

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

  • Law Clerk, Seventh Circuit and for the Honorable Ruben Castillo in the Northern District of Illinois
  • Associate, Kirkland & Ellis
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