Sam Kuhn is an associate with the firm. He was formerly a federal civil rights prosecutor with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that role, he investigated and prosecuted federal civil rights crimes across America, including misconduct committed by police and prison officials acting under color of law and hate crimes. Prior to working at the Civil Rights Division, he clerked for the Honorable Pamela K. Chen of the Eastern District of New York. He was also a Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project fellow with the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where he pursued police and prison official accountability through civil litigation, criminal prosecution, and policy with that office’s Civil Rights Bureau, Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office, and Office of Special Investigation.
Sam graduated from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the New Haven Legal Assistance Reentry Clinic, helped direct the YLS Civil Rights Project, was Executive Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, was Research Assistant to Professors Tracey Meares and Fiona Doherty, and taught as an Affiliated Fellow of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies. While in law school, Sam also interned with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Civil Rights Corps, and Senator Richard J. Durbin’s Judiciary Committee Staff. Before law school, Sam worked with the federal, state, and local governments to reduce community and police violence with the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His writing has appeared in The American Prospect, The City University of Hong Kong Law Review, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. He received his B.A. in Government and Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University.