Elizabeth Simpson

Areas of Expertise

• Access to Justice
• Civil Rights and Discrimination
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Justice Policy
• Public Interest Law

Biography

Elizabeth Simpson joined the Carolina Law adjunct faculty in 2013, and has served in the Civil Legal Assistance Clinic, the Critical Race Lawyering Civil Rights Clinic, and the Supreme Court Program. She is the strategic director of Emancipate NC, a nonprofit civil rights organization, where her specialties include government transparency, prison conditions, family regulation, cannabis enforcement, and defense of dissent and protest. Along with her former client, Toia Potts, she is a co-founder of Carolina Parent Defenders, North Carolina’s first holistic defense organization for parents facing involuntary separation from their children by State action. Simpson attended Yale Law School where she was an articles editor for the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. After law school, Simpson clerked for Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She is admitted to the Virginia and North Carolina state bars and has practiced law in North Carolina since 2010.