Ellen Marrus

Ellen Marrus is the Royce Till Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and the

founder and Director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy (CCLP). She is also the co-director

of the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center (SWJDC). Her scholarship focuses on representing children in various proceedings and the intersection of juvenile justice with race and gender. She has written a casebook entitled CHILDREN AND JUVENILE JUSTICE, co-edited New York University Press book CHILDREN, SEXUALITY AND THE LAW and provided a chapter for the book entitled Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Definitely Not the Girls in the Juvenile Justice System. Professor Marrus concentrates her scholarship in the areas of juvenile law, children’s rights, and professionalism, and presents at various conferences on these topics around the country. She came to the University of Houston Law Center in 1995 after serving as a juvenile public defender in California. Professor Marrus has directed the clinical programs at UHLC, including child advocacy clinics and designed a lab component for her Children and the Law course where students receive hands on experience in child dependency cases. She also teaches Juvenile Law, Street Law, Children and the Law, Professional Responsibility, and practice related courses. In her capacity as Director of CCLP and SWJDC she has provided technical assistance to public defenders, court appointed juvenile attorneys, the Department of Justice, juvenile probation, and federal and state legislators.