Sam spent her litigation career representing people sentenced to death in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. Most recently, she was a supervising attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco. Currently, she lectures, researches and serves as a consultant on capital cases. Her research focuses on how courtroom narratives are constructed, and the ways in which language bias and biased speech acts can contribute to wrongful convictions and harsher sentences. You can find her scholarship, with sociolinguist Dr. Sharese King (U. Chicago) in Linguistics Vanguard (forthcoming, September 2024).
Education
BA, Brown University
JD, Yale Law School
MFA, Pacific University
Samantha Jacobs is teaching the following courses in Fall 2024:
• 206.4A sec. 001 - Legal Research and Writing for LL.M. Students
• 208.9 sec. 004 - Fundamentals of U.S. Law
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Summer 2024 | 206.5S sec. 003 | LLM Legal Research and Writing (Remote + Summer) | View Teaching Evaluation | Fall 2023 | 206.4A sec. 007 | Legal Research and Writing for LL.M. Students | View Teaching Evaluation |
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