Saylor S. Soinski is an attorney committed to fighting for justice on behalf of Arizona residents harmed by law enforcement and correctional officials. Saylor graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Chicago. She has served as a judicial law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and now teaches at Lewis & Clark Law School as an adjunct law professor.
Before becoming an attorney, Saylor taught high school English in Detroit, Michigan. She has supported social work and vocational programs at Cook County Jail in Chicago, IL and Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, CA, and worked with the Brennan Center for Justice's criminal justice program. These experiences solidified her determination to protect individuals from government abuses of power.
Excessive force and police brutality
Police shootings and wrongful death
Deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs
Assault by correctional officers
Failure to treat injuries sustained in custody
Yale Law School, J.D.
University of Chicago, B.A., Anthropology
Hon. Scott M. Matheson (10th Cir.)
Repatriating the Buffalo: NAGPRA's Applicability to Yellowstone Bison Management, 40 Pace Env't L. Rev. 173 (2023)
The Semiotics of Meat: FSIS Regulations and Meaning, 13 J. Animal & Env't L. 41 (2022)
Paid Donation: Reconciling Altruism and Compensation in Oocyte Transfer, 20 Yale J.Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 514 (2021)
Fenced In: Rhetoric in U.S. Wild Horse Inmate Programs, UCSB Environmental Justice Symposium Presentation (2021)
California
Arizona