Bio
Ieshaah Murphy is a law professor at Howard University School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and a seminar on Race and the Criminal Legal System. A proud Baltimore City resident, Ieshaah is deeply committed to the communities ACLU Maryland serves. Her scholarship examines how the criminal legal system harms Black communities and offers anti-racist, abolition-informed frameworks for transformation.
Before joining Howard, Ieshaah directed the Criminal Defense and Racial Justice Clinic at the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law. She brings over a decade of practice experience as a civil rights attorney and public defender, including as a former senior staff attorney at ACLU Maryland and supervising trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for DC. She is a founding member of the Black Public Defender Association.
Ieshaah is a graduate of Spelman College and Harvard Law School.