Associate Professor, Social Theory and Practice
lckawar@umich.edu
Office Information:
1516 East Quad
phone: 734-647-4351
Social Theory and Practice;
Residential College
About
Leila Kawar is Associate Professor of American Culture and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She is a socio-legal scholar whose work examines the cultural dimensions of legal practice. Her comparative research has focused on how the work of lawyers, judges, and other legal experts intersects with the politics of migration, citizenship, and labor. Her first monograph, Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France, is published in the Law and Society Series of Cambridge University Press. Her current research project, for which she received a 2019-20 Mellon New Directions Fellowship, explores how international lawmaking has conceptualized “guestworkers” historically.
