Amy Sinden

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Associate Professor Amy Sinden joined the faculty in 2001, bringing a decade of experience in public interest law. She specializes in environmental law, also teaching courses in property, and civil procedure.

Before joining the law school faculty, Professor Sinden served as senior counsel for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, handling litigation on behalf of PennFuture and other citizens' and environmental groups. Prior to this position, Sinden was an associate attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) in Seattle, Washington, where she litigated federal environmental cases focusing on natural resource issues.

In addition to her involvement with environmental issues, Professor Sinden was an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she represented parents in civil child abuse and neglect proceedings, and advocated on behalf of welfare recipients seeking job training and education. Professor Sinden served twice as a law clerk, first for Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and later for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Sinden graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991 where she was associate editor of the law review and was named a Public Interest Fellow. A member of the Order of the Coif, she has received numerous honors and has published in academic journals on the subjects of endangered species and cost-benefit analysis as well as welfare and family law issues. She has received numerous honors and has published in academic journals, including the Iowa Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, on the subjects of endangered species and cost-benefit analysis as well as welfare and family law issues.