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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]
Work
[edit]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]
Awards
[edit]In 2021, Akbar and five other scholars were given a Freedom Scholar Award by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for leading research in the fields of "abolitionist, Black, feminist, queer, radical, and anti-colonialist studies". The annual award amounts to $250,000 over two years, which the scholars may use however they like.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Amna Akbar". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on 2023-07-06. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ↑ "Professor Amna Akbar named 2021 Freedom Scholar". Asian American Studies. Ohio State University. Archived from the original on 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ↑ Browne, Austin (2023-09-14). "New Harvard, UPenn law prof has anti-police history, blames cops for the 'devaluation of black life'". Campus Reform. Leadership Institute. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ↑ "Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation Award $1.5 Million to 2021 Freedom Scholars". Casey Grants. Archived from the original on 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
External links
[edit]- "Toward a Radical Imagination of Law" - NYU Law Review