Stephanie Campos-Bui is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley Law where she supervises interdisciplinary teams of law and public policy students in the pursuit of non-litigation strategies to address systemic racial, economic, and social injustice.

Stephanie’s research and advocacy focuses on the impact that fees, fines, restitution, and bail have on communities of color. She has co-authored several reports including High Pain, Low Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families in Alameda County, California (opens in a new tab)

(2016), Making Families Pay: The Harmful, Unlawful, and Costly Practice of Charging Juvenile Administrative Fees in California (2017), Fee Abolition and the Promise of Debt-Free Justice for Young People and their Families in California (2019), and Coming Up Short: The Unrealized Promise of In re Humphrey (2022). Stephanie has worked in coalition with community groups across multiple states on successful fee and fine abolition campaigns in the juvenile and criminal injustice systems.

In 2022, Stephanie received the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Community Engaged Teaching (opens in a new tab). .. She received an honorable mention by the Clinical Legal Education Association for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project (opens in a new tab) in 2020. While she was a law student, Stephanie was awarded the Brian M. Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy – Honorable Mention. She is a graduate of Berkeley Law and a member of the California Bar.