Sarah Medina Camiscoli
Assistant Professor of Law
Biography
Professor Medina Camiscoli writes at the intersection of constitutional law, education law, and youth social movements. She employs participatory law scholarship and movement law to include, elevate, and credit mobilized youth who reimagine law and prefigure radical democracies. Through this work, she intends to extend the legacy of Rutgers Law School— known as the "People’s Electric Law School" — to marginalized and mobilized youth.
Previously, Professor Medina Camiscoli taught as an Education Studies Fellow at the Yale Center or the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and practiced law as a Justice Catalyst Legal Fellow at Public Counsel. Before law school, she worked as a public school teacher and youth organizer in the South Bronx where she founded IntegrateNYC— a youth-led organization that developed young leaders who repair the harms of segregation and build authentic integration and equity. Upon graduating from law school, she co-founded the Peer Defense Project—an intergenerational movement lawyering project that develops legal education, networks and technology to empower youth to fight injustice and transform the law. She identifies as a proud first generation, LGBTQAI+ legal scholar–practitioner of the Puerto Rican diaspora, born and raised in New Jersey.
Professor Medina Camiscoli holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.A. from Hunter School of Education.
Scholarship
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli, The Young and the Lawless, 124 MICH. L. REV. (Forthcoming Fall 2025).
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Crisis Convergence, 120 NW. U. L. REV 5 (2025).
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Teenage Rebels and the Demand for Due Process, 16 GEO. J. L. & MOD. CRIT. RACE PERSP., 28 (2025).
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli & Sa’Real McRae, Youth Participatory Law Scholarship, 110 VA. L. REV. ONLINE, 313 (2024).
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Youth Movement Law: The Case for Interpreting the Constitution with Mobilized Youth, 26 U. PA. J. CONST. L., 1558 (2024).
- Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Paige Duggins-Clay, Maryam Salmanova, & Ibtihal Chamakh, Youth Dignity Takings: How Book and Trans Bans Take Youth Property and Dignity, 1 LOYOLA INTERDISC. J. PUB. INT. L., 1 (2024).
- Christina John, Russ Pearce, Aundray Archer, Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Aaron Pines, Maryam Salmanova, & Vira Tarnavaska, Subversive Legal Education: Reformist Steps Toward Abolitionist Visions, 90 FORDHAM L. REV. 2089 (2022).
Practice
- Mahmoud, et al. v. Taylor, et al. (On Writ of Certiorari to The United States Court Of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit) Brief of Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents (2025).
- IntegrateNYC Inc. et al., v. State of New York et al. (App. Div. 2d Dep't 2023).
- Deb Halaand, et al. v. Brackeen, et al. (On Writ of Certiorari to The United States Court Of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) Brief of National Association of Counsel for Children and Thirty Other Children’s Rights Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Federal and Tribal Defendants (2022)