Cameron D. Clark

Cameron D. Clark is a movement lawyer and Clinical Supervisor in the Policy Advocacy Clinic, training law and public policy students to support grassroots organizations in legislative campaigns at the state and local levels. 

 

In this role, Cameron serves as Co-Coordinator of Debt Free Justice, the national campaign to repeal statutory financial penalties imposed on youth in the criminal legal system. A partnership between PAC, the National Center for Youth Law, and the Juvenile Law Center, Debt Free Justice has achieved campaign victories across the country, resulting in the elimination of over $700 million in prospective and outstanding debt obligations owed by youth and their families. Working with clients and students, Cameron has facilitated juvenile legislative reforms in Illinois, Hawai’i, Georgia, and Texas. 

 

In addition to his work within the Clinical Program, Cameron is a constitutional criminal procedure scholar with articles published and forthcoming in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and the Berkeley Journal on Black Law & Policy. Cameron studies the limitations on due process protections afforded to minors in school discipline proceedings, juvenile adjudications, and criminal prosecutions of minors tried as adults. Cameron’s current research investigates the limits of school discipline, the prudence of limitations placed on minor students’ due process rights, and the unchecked expansion of criminal disciplinary regimes in order to identify policy prescriptions that can effectively decouple these systems.

 

Cameron received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he studied as a NAACP-LDF Earl Warren Scholar, a Harvard University Presidential Scholar, and managing editor of the Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice (aka Harvard Blackletter Law Journal). While there, Cameron was awarded the Gary Bellow Public Service Award, which recognizes one student who “exemplifies how lawyers can litigate, educate, advocate, and organize to promote social justice.” Cameron received his B.A. in sociology with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, completing the program in three years. 

 

A civil rights attorney by training, Cameron joined Berkeley Law following fellowships with the Southern Poverty Law Center in New Orleans and the Texas Civil Rights Project in Houston. Cameron’s previous experiences also include litigation in California, working with Public Counsel and the ACLU of Southern California to support transgender prisoners and students asserting their civil rights.