Amna Akbar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Law professor
- Legal scholar
- Attorney
- Research on social movements, policing, race, and inequality
- Editor-in-Chief of Michigan Law Review
- Freedom Scholar Award, Marguerite Casey Foundation (2021)
Amna Akbar | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupations |
|
| Known for |
|
| Awards |
|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline |
|
| Institutions |
|
Amna Akbar is an American academic and professor of law. She is a Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting professor of law at Harvard University and previously worked at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She studies social movements, policing, race, and inequality.[1] She was named a 2021 Freedom Scholar.[2]
Akbar's work has appeared in several law journals, and she also publishes popular essays and op-eds. For 2023 to 2024, Akbar taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.[1][3]
Professor Akbar also taught at New York University School of Law and the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.[1]
Akbar clerked for Judge Gerard E. Lynch in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and worked as an attorney.[1]