About
Sarah Redfield is a member of the Maine bar and Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH. Professor Redfield’s expertise is in education law, including special education law, and in issues related to diversity of the legal profession. She is a nationally known author and speaker. Her two most recent books are Diversity Realized: Putting the Walk with the Talk for Diversity in the Pipeline to the Legal Profession (2009) and, with her colleague Scott Johnson, Education Law: A Problem-Based Approach (LEXIS 2009). Her next book The Education Pipeline to the Professions: Programs that Work to Increase Diversity (in progress) will consider specific law-related pipeline programs that show success. Readers with ideas or information on such programs are invited to email sarah.redfield@gmail.com or contact her by phone or mail.
Her work with diversity and educational pipeline issues includes serving as a Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline and chair of its Education SubCommittee; Member of the State Bar of California’s Council on Access and Fairness and member of its Early Pipeline and US News & World Report Subcommittees; a Member of CLEO’s Board of Directors; a Member of the University of California at Irvine Saturday Academy of Law Oversight and Curriculum Committees; Gubernatorial-Appointed Member of the Education Commission of the States and Elected Member of its Steering Committee; and Organizer of the Wingspread P20 Consortium (organization devoted to increasing numbers of underrepresented minority students persisting along the educational pipeline to admission to law school).
In addition to diversity and her main teaching fields (education law and administrative law), Professor Redfield has a recognized expertise in law-themed education at all levels along the education pipeline.
See also longer background at Redfield Academic Resume 09.