About Us

Who We Are

Danielle Hamilton, Director, Carter G. Phillips Center for Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy

Danielle Hamilton is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Director of the Carter G. Phillips Center for Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy.

Carter G. Phillips, Co-Director, Supreme Court Clinic

Carter Phillips is Adjunct Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Co-Director of Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic. He has been a Director of the Supreme Court Clinic since its founding, and is one of the country’s most experienced Supreme Court and appellate lawyers. 

Carter has argued more than ninety cases before the Supreme Court, which is more than any other individual in private practice; has argued in every federal circuit court; and has argued more than three dozen cases before the Federal Circuit. Carter has published widely, with articles or other pieces in the Northwestern University Law Review, the Washington and Lee Law Review, and the University of Miami Law Review. He is also, with Jeff Green, Sarah Schrup, and Susan Provenzano, the author of Advanced Appellate Advocacy.

Before joining Sidley, Carter served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. Carter clerked for the Honorable Robert Sprecher, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Carter graduated from the Ohio State University and Northwestern Law School.

Tobias Loss-Eaton, Co-Director, Supreme Court Clinic

Tobias Loss-Eaton is a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he serves as Co-Director of the Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic.  An experienced appellate litigator, Tobias has written or coauthored almost 160 briefs in state and federal appellate courts, including over 70 briefs in the Supreme Court.  With the Clinic, he has litigated several Supreme Court merits cases, including Brown v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1195 (2024), Kahler v. Kansas, 140 S. Ct. 1021 (2020), and United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019).

Before joining Sidley’s D.C. office, Tobias served as a law clerk to Judge Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was a senior policy editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review and notes editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Jeffrey T. Green, Co-Director, Supreme Court Clinic

Jeffrey T. Green is a founding director of the Supreme Court Clinic together with Mr. Phillips and Professor Schrup. The Practicum’s first Term was 2006 and it has operated continuously since during both the fall and spring semesters. Prior to establishing his own boutique firm in 2024, Jeffrey was a partner with Sidley Austin's Supreme Court and Appellate Group for 27 years, having joined the firm in 1989 following a clerkship with the Hon. Jerry Smith on the Fifth Circuit.

Jeffrey also served as the Global Leader of Sidley’s Pro Bono Practice for 10 years from 2013 to 2023. Jeffrey has presented oral arguments at the Supreme Court seven times, including in Gall v. United States (2007) and Fischer v. United States (2024). He is the only current practitioner at the Supreme Court to have argued two cases in one day as a private litigant and he has mentored and coached scores of first-time advocates before the Court. Jeffrey serves as the Amicus Committee Co-Chair for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He graduated from the University of California Davis Law School where he was the Managing Editor of the Law Review. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Texas Austin and a bachelor’s degree in the same discipline from Cornell University.  

Sarah Schrup, Adjunct Faculty, Supreme Court Clinic

Sarah Schrup is the principal and founder of Appellate Advisory LLC, an appellate law firm and consultancy. Before starting the firm, she served as the Circuit Executive for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Sarah founded and directed Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Appellate Advocacy Center from 2006 to 2020 and is presently an adjunct professor in its Supreme Court Clinic. She has worked on more than 250 appeals in the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, Sarah served as a law clerk in the Seventh Circuit and for Rubén Castillo, former chief judge of the Northern District of Illinois. She also spent two years as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, focusing on commercial, securities and employment matters. In addition, Ms. Schrup provided writing training and coaching to law firms and bar associations, and in 2016 co-authored a textbook entitled Advanced Appellate Advocacy. Ms. Schrup serves as a Seventh Circuit Vice-Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Amicus Committee. She received her Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University, and her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.