Event Description:
Professor Jamelia Morgan (Northwestern) will visit the Allard School of Law’s Faculty Colloquium Series to present her forthcoming work, “Emergency Psychiatric Holds and the Fourth Amendment". This will be a hybrid event.
Please contact the Events Manager Michelle Burchill at burchill@allard.ubc.ca if you would like the Zoom link.
Speaker
Professor Jamelia Morgan is a Professor of Law and the Founding Faculty Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Professor 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.
Professor Morgan received a B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Stanford University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to law school, she served as associate director of the African American Policy Forum, a social justice think tank that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse related to affirmative action, structural racism, and gender inequality.
- Allard School of Law
- Research