Fiona Doherty

Fiona Doherty is Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School.  She directs the Criminal Justice Clinic, which defends indigent clients accused of misdemeanor and felony offenses in New Haven.  The clinic also handles a wide variety of sentencing cases, including federal clemency petitions.  In 2014, Professor Doherty received the Yale Provost’s Teaching Prize.

From 2005 to 2010, Professor Doherty was an Assistant Federal Defender in the Southern District of New York.  Before that, she was Senior Counsel at Human Rights First in New York City, working to ensure that U.S. anti-terrorism measures incorporate human rights protections.

Professor Doherty received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999 and clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then received a Bernstein Fellowship to work in Northern Ireland, where she focused on cases involving the targeting of defense lawyers during the conflict.

Professor Doherty’s current scholarship focuses on supervised release, probation, and parole.  She has published in the NYU Law Review and in the Georgetown Law Journal.