Amy R. Schofield is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Institute, Professor Schofield was an associate in the Intellectual Property Department of Hale and Dorr LLP in Boston, Massachusetts, where she drafted and prosecuted patent applications and provided patent litigation support. Professor Schofield has conducted extensive research on state and national handgun regulations in conjunction with the Center for Gun Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and provided research assistance for the municipal litigation and NAACP's suit for injunctive relief against the handgun industry while employed as a legal intern at the Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence.

Professor Schofield received her B.A. from Cornell University with a concentration in Human Genetics and Development, her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, and her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She was a Greenwall Fellow in the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics and is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. Professor Schofield is a registered United States patent attorney and a member of the Massachusetts bar.