Amy Howe has served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court, including matters involving criminal law, the death penalty, the First Amendment, bankruptcy, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.  In the 2007 term, Amy successfully argued on behalf of the petitioner in Greenlaw v. United States, a case involving the authority of a court of appeals to increase criminal sentences in the absence of a government cross-appeal.  She currently is a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, where she co-teaches the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and she has co-taught the Supreme Court Litigation class at Harvard Law School.

Amy has a special interest in the death penalty, international law, and international human right and has consulted on numerous briefs relating to those issues in both the Supreme Court and the lower courts.  From 2001 to 2004 she was an adjunct professor teaching international human rights litigation at American University's Washington College of Law.  Prior to joining Howe & Russell, P.C., Amy was an associate in litigation and international practice at Steptoe & Johnson LLP.  Amy is also the editor of SCOTUSblog and she earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.