Lindsey Webb
Associate Professor
303-871-6585 (Office)
Office 365F, Frank H. Ricketson Law Bldg., 2255 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208
Specialization(s)
Law School Clinical Program
Professional Biography
Lindsey Webb graduated from Wesleyan University and Stanford Law School. She also served as a Prettyman Fellow in the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law School, where she earned her LLM in Advocacy.
After graduation from law school, Professor Webb worked as a Deputy State Public Defender in the Colorado State Public Defender's Office. In this capacity, she represented people accused of misdemeanors and felonies, in addition to children accused of crimes in juvenile court. She also worked as an attorney in the appellate division of the Public Defender's Office, where she handled direct appeals of felony convictions. At Georgetown Law School Professor Webb supervised law students enrolled in the Criminal Justice Clinic in their representation of persons accused of misdemeanors in the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the faculty in the Student Law Office, Professor Webb served as the Director of Public Interest and a Lecturer at Denver Law, where she taught doctrinal and trial advocacy courses in addition to serving on the faculty of the Legal Externship and Public Interest Practicum programs.
Degree(s)
- LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 2007
- JD, Stanford Law School, 1999
- BA, American Studies, Wesleyan University, 1993
Licensure / Accreditations
- Law License
Featured Publications
- Legal Consciousness as Race Consciousness: Expansion of the Fourth Amendment Seizure Analysis Through Objective Knowledge of Police Impunity, 48 Seton Hall L. Rev. 403 (2018).
- Positive Disruption: Addressing Race in a Time of Social Change Through a Team-Taught, Reflection-Based, Outward-Looking Law School Seminar, co-authored with Alexi Freeman, 21 U. Pa. J. L. & Soc. Change 121 (2018).
- Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court, 42 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 125 (2018).
- The Immortal Accusation, 90 Washington Law Review 1853 (2015).
- The Procedural Due Process Rights of the Stigmatized Prisoner, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1055 (2013).
