Rate My Professor Daria Fisher Page

Daria Fisher Page is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project (CELP), a component of the legal clinic program. In CELP, her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and municipalities seeking to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunities, and advance social justice. Client matters include entity formation, strategic planning, coalition building, and the design of advocacy plans. Page is also affiliated with the University of Iowa's School of Planning and Public Affairs, Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, and Scanlan Center for School Mental Health. She earned a BA from the University of Michigan, a JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, and an LLM with Distinction from Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining Iowa Law, she served as Director of the Community Justice Project and Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Page's research and scholarship focus on access to justice, with particular emphasis on rural contexts, meaningful community engagement, and legal education reform. Her key publications include "Theorizing Legal Vulnerability to Enhance Rural Access to Justice," co-authored with Brian R. Farrell and Ryan T. Sakoda (69 S.D. L. Rev. 458, 2024); "One Crisis or Two Problems? Disentangling Rural Access to Justice and the Rural Attorney Shortage," with Brian R. Farrell (98 Wash. L. Rev. 849, 2023); "A Pedagogy of Anxiety: The Dangers of Specialization in Legal Education and the Profession" (44 J. Legal Prof. 37, 2019); "Developing a Pedagogy of Beneficiary Accountability in the Representation of Social Justice Non-Profit Organizations," with Amber Baylor (45 Sw. L. Rev. 825, 2016); "Etta & Dan: Seeking a Prelude to a Transformative Journey" (23 Clinical L. Rev. 251, 2016); and "Closing the Age-Out Gap?: Assessing Maryland’s Recent Expansion of Equity Court Jurisdiction for Potential Special Immigrant Juveniles" (22 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 33, 2014). She co-authored "Behind the Unique Hurdles of Rural Access to Justice" in Law360 (2024). As a Fall 2021 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence, she promoted visual advocacy in legal education. Page co-directs the Cultivating Rurality initiative at the Obermann Center.