Robin Walker Sterling

Following law school, Professor Walker Sterling clerked for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.  She then served as the Stuart-Stiller Teaching Fellow in the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellows program at Georgetown University Law Center, representing adults and children charged with criminal offenses in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and supervising third-year law students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic. Professor Walker Sterling then worked as a staff attorney in the trial division of the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia, representing adults and children charged with criminal and delinquency offenses.  Professor Walker Sterling followed her tenure at PDS with a position as a Supervising Attorney at the Children’s Law Center, where she trained and supervised guardians ad litem handling dependency, adoption, and guardianship cases.  Just before she joined the Denver Law faculty, Professor Walker Sterling worked as the Special Counsel with the National Juvenile Defender Center, a juvenile defense policy advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.  Professor Walker Sterling’s research and teaching interests include clinical advocacy, critical race theory, criminal law and procedure, and juvenile justice.