Amanda Rogers is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School, teaching and supervising in the Criminal Justice Clinics. Previously, Professor Rogers directed and started the Caritas Clemency Clinic at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. She and her students represented incarcerated individuals seeking release from prison through compassionate release. She litigated cases in federal district courts across the country, including Alabama, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas and the Virgin Islands. Prof. Rogers began her criminal defense career with Georgetown Law’s Prettyman fellowship. After the fellowship, Prof. Rogers joined the Public Defender Service as a trial attorney representing both adults and children charged with serious felonies in D.C. Superior Court. By the end of her tenure, she was a supervising attorney and served on PDS’ forensic practice group, which trained and supervised lawyers involved in forensic science litigation.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Books

Postconviction Remedies (LaJuana Davis, Sean O’Brien & Amanda Rogers eds., Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction forthcoming 2025).

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Amanda K. Rogers, Importance of Counsel in Compassionate Release Cases, 86 Ohio State L.J. (forthcoming).

Forthcoming Works - Book Chapters & Collected Works

Amanda K. Rogers, Statutory Actions: Compassionate Release, in Postconviction Remedies (LaJuana Davis, Sean O’Brien & Amanda Rogers eds., Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction forthcoming 2025).