Peggy Sasso
Professor of Law
J.D., UCLA School of Law
M.F.A., Yale University
B.A., University Of California, San Diego
Peggy Sasso has extensive trial and appellate experience at both the state and federal level in courts across the country, including litigating over forty cases at the Ninth Circuit and prevailing twice at the U.S. Supreme Court without oral argument. She has been with the Office of the Federal Defender since 2009 where she currently serves as the First Assistant Federal Defender for the Eastern District of California as well as the appellate attorney for the Fresno office. Previously she practiced civil law as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in Los Angeles. She clerked for Judge Richard Clifton at the Ninth Circuit. Her publications include Criminal Responsibility in the Age of “Mind-Reading,” 46 American Criminal Law Review 1191 (2009), Implementing the Death Penalty: The Moral Implications of Recent Advances in Neuropsychology, 29 Cardozo Law Review 765 (2007), and Searching for Trust in the Not-For-Profit Boardroom: Looking Beyond the Duty of Obedience to Ensure Accountability, 50 UCLA Law Review 1485 (2003).