Carlie Ware Horne is a Lecturer and Clinical Supervising Attorney at the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic. She received a B.A. from Yale College in American Studies, and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She joins the academic staff at Stanford after two decades of litigation in civil rights, social justice, and indigent criminal defense. She served as law clerk to the Honorable Claudia Wilken on the United States District Court, Northern District of California.  Carlie received the Relman Civil Rights Fellowship from Relman Colfax PLLC in Washington, D.C., where she litigated civil rights claims in housing and public accommodations. She served as the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow at the ACLU Racial Justice Project, and then continued litigating civil rights and racial justice issues as a staff attorney at the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. Carlie served for fourteen years as a Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender, where she represented adult and juvenile clients at all stages of defense in criminal cases. She designed and established the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Pre-Arraignment Representation unit, providing early representation to indigent community members after arrest but before the first court date (arraignment) when they would otherwise first meet an attorney. She draws upon that experience to argue, in her Article, Pre Arraignment Promise, 66 B.C. L. Rev. 1523 (2025)  that widespread implementation of early representation programs has the power to expand the Sixth Amendment constitutional right to counsel.

Carlie is the author of a chapter on litigating Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure Motions in the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) California Criminal Law Procedure and Practice manual, published annually by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California and Regents of the University of California. Carlie serves as Faculty Co-Sponsor to the Stanford Jail and Prison Education Program. She also teaches an undergraduate seminar through the Stanford University Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education IntroSem program called Inside the Courtroom: Criminal Justice on Trial, which explores issues of criminal justice policy and practice by critically examining a trial transcript and evidentiary exhibits from a real case.