Jamelia Morgan
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Phone
312-503-4801
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Assistant
Francesca Bullerman
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1570
Assistant Email
Francesca.Bullerman@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Professor Jamelia Morgan is an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersections of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law, disability and policing, overcriminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder, and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status.
Areas of Expertise
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- Critical Race Theory
- Disability Law
Selected Publications
- Responding to Abolition Anxieties: A Roadmap for Legal Analysis, 120 Michigan Law Review 1199 (2022).
- Why Disability Studies in Criminal Law and Procedure?, 69 Journal of Legal Education ___ (forthcoming 2022).
- Disability’s Fourth Amendment, 122 Columbia Law Review 489 (2022).
- Rethinking Disorderly Conduct, 109 California Law Review 1637 (2021).
- Policing Under Disability Law, 73 Stanford Law Review 1401 (2021).
- Policing Marginality in Public Space, 81 Ohio State Law Journal 1045 (2020).
Education
- BA, Stanford University
- MA, Stanford University
- JD, Yale Law School
Prior Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Law, 2021-July 2022, University of California, Irvine, School of Law
- Associate Professor, 2018-2021, University of Connecticut School of Law
- Visiting Professor and Senior Liman Fellow Affiliate, 2019, Yale Law School
- Visiting Assistant Professor, 2020, Brooklyn Law School
- Adjunct Professor, 2020, New York University Law School