Hector Linares, Esq.

Professor Linares is a Clinic Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. He teaches the Youth Defense section of the Loyola Law Clinic where he trains law students to defend youth in delinquency proceedings through holistic representation and to engage in impact litigation and other systemic reform work to improve youth-serving legal systems. Prior to entering academia, Hector was a public defender for youth at Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights. He also practiced disability rights law as a supervising attorney at Disability Rights California in Los Angeles, California. He began his career as the Southern Poverty Law Center Special Education Fellow at the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana. Hector is a member of the Gault Center’s National Advisory Board, a co-director of the Southern Youth Defender Center, and a certified Youth Defense Advocacy Program trainer.