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Professor Samuels came to the School of Law as a visiting faculty member in 1987 and joined the permanent faculty in 1989. She worked as a journalist before attending law school, where she was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and an attorney in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Judge James L. Oakes, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After clerking, she was a legal services attorney and an adjunct law professor in Alabama. She was the director of the School of Law's first-year Legal Skills Program from 1987 to 1994. Samuels does pro bono work in the civil rights and the child and family law areas. She is a member of the Alabama Bar.