Stephanie Campos-Bui is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley Law where she supervises interdisciplinary teams of law and public policy students in the pursuit of non-litigation strategies to address systemic racial, economic, and social injustice.
Stephanie’s research and advocacy focuses on the impact that fees, fines, restitution, and bail have on communities of color. She has co-authored several reports including High Pain, Low Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families in Alameda County, California (2016), Making Families Pay: The Harmful, Unlawful, and Costly Practice of Charging Juvenile Administrative Fees in California (2017), Fee Abolition and the Promise of Debt-Free Justice for Young People and their Families in California (2019), and Coming Up Short: The Unrealized Promise of In re Humphrey (2022). Stephanie has worked in coalition with community groups across multiple states on successful fee and fine abolition campaigns in the juvenile and criminal injustice systems.
In 2022, Stephanie received the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Community Engaged Teaching. She received an honorable mention by the Clinical Legal Education Association for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project in 2020. While she was a law student, Stephanie was awarded the Brian M. Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy – Honorable Mention. She is a graduate of Berkeley Law and a member of the California Bar.
Education
B.A., UC Berkeley (2011)
J.D., Berkeley Law (2014)
Stephanie Lian Campos-Bui is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2024.
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Spring 2024 | 295.5X sec. 001 | Advanced Policy Advocacy Clinic | Fall 2023 | 290A sec. 001 | Policy Advocacy Clinic Seminar | View Teaching Evaluation | 290B sec. 001 | Advanced Policy Advocacy Clinic Seminar | View Teaching Evaluation | 295.5P sec. 001 | Policy Advocacy Clinic | View Teaching Evaluation | 295.5X sec. 001 | Advanced Policy Advocacy Clinic | Spring 2023 | 295.5X sec. 001 | Advanced Policy Advocacy Clinic | View Teaching Evaluation |
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Clinical Program Celebrates Sax Prize Winner Salena Tiet ’17
A two-year standout at Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic, Tiet was honored for her work ethic and legal acumen.
Alumni Reunion Weekend 2016: Panels, Tours, Tailgate and More
Alumni and faculty experts will tackle the future of juvenile courts, the state of the U.S. Supreme Court and law’s role in encouraging entrepreneurship in the startup world.
Alex Kaplan ’16 Wins Sax Prize for Clinical Advocacy
Kaplan was honored for his extraordinary work with Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic and East Bay Community Law Center.
Clinic Achieves Promising Victory in Push to End Juvenile Probation Fees
After its triumph in Alameda County, Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic aims to repeal county authority to assess and collect such fees statewide.