About
Sarah Redfield is a member of the Maine bar and Professor of Law. Professor Redfield’s expertise is in education law, including special education law, and in issues related to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. She is a nationally known author and speaker. She is co-author of two popular education law texts, one on education law generally and the second on special education law. This year she published an edited book of successful pipeline programs entitled The Education Pipeline to the Professions: Programs that Work to Increase Diversity, which includes 14 chapters written by on-the-ground pipeline experts. This books follows along from her prior book, Diversity Realized: Putting the Walk with the Talk for Diversity in the Pipeline to the Legal Profession (2009). 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. Readers with ideas or information on ongoing pipeline or law-themed programs are invited to email sarah.redfield@gmail.com.
Professor Redfield is currently working most directly on issues of implicit bias, including serving for a second term on the ABA Section of Litigation Implicit Bias Task Force and contributing to their Implicit Bias Toolbox and to joint efforts in impartial juries with the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
Her prior work with diversity and educational pipeline issues has included prior 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).
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