Cassie Chambers Armstrong

Biography

Professor Cassie Chambers Armstrong’s research explores access to justice, rural courts, domestic violence and housing law. She uses empirical methods to study how courts function across geographic regions and areas of law. In 2024–25, she was an Access to Justice Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Armstrong graduated from Harvard Law School, where she served as president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She also earned degrees from Yale University and the Yale School of Public Health and studied at the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar.

She began her career as a Skadden Fellow representing low-income survivors of domestic violence in family law matters. She also clerked for Judge Amul Thapar, now of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, during his service on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Professor Armstrong’s scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy, Kentucky Law Journal, Rutgers Law Review and other law journals. Her first book, Hill Women, was published by Random House in 2020. She also writes for general audiences, with work published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rural Review and more.

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