Amber Baylor

Amber Baylor is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at Texas A&M University School of Law. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Amber was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Veterans Law Clinic at Widener University Delaware Law.

Amber began her teaching career as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney at The Community Justice Project at Georgetown University School of Law. She has held positions as a staff attorney at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS), a community-based public defense office in New York, and a trial attorney at Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. Amber was also a Kathryn Wadia fellow at the Ramallah and Jenin offices of the International Legal Foundation, where she worked with Palestinian public defense attorneys.
Amber is a former legal intern of the public housing division at BPI, a Chicago-based civil rights organization, and the Indigenous Rights section of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi Kenya. She is a graduate of NYU School of Law and received her B.A. in History from Columbia University.