Deepening the intersection between social enterprise, education, access to justice, food, and agriculture.
Amanda is a frequent speaker on the topics of access to justice, economic development, legal education, entrepreneurship, and rural lawyering.
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Amanda L. Kool is an attorney, professor, and legal strategist residing in Kentucky, USA. A transactional lawyer by trade, she consults on data-driven, systems-level interventions in legal ecosystems with a dual focus on creating economic opportunities and resolving civil legal needs for low-income people in rural communities. She is currently a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches a course on legal practice and access to justice in rural America.
Prior to relocating to Kentucky, Amanda was the director of Harvard Law School’s Community Enterprise Project, a clinical program of the Harvard Transactional Law Clinics that aims to dismantle persistent legal barriers to economic development in underserved neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts and beyond. Amanda is also a co-founder of the Alliance for Lawyers & Rural America (AfLARA), an organization that facilitates conversations, ideas, information, and resources at the intersection of law and rurality.
