Professor of Law
- B.A. Stanford University
- M.A. Stanford University
- J.D. Yale Law School
Professor Jamelia Morgan is a scholar and teacher whose work spans criminal law, criminal procedure, disability law, race and American law, law reform and abolition, and law and political economy. Her scholarship examines how American law defines and sorts the people it governs. She explores the assumptions law makes about legal subjects, how legal classifications such as dangerousness and disorder distribute privileges and penalties, how the state moves people between systems of care and control, and why individual rights fall short of remedying structural harm. She is the Founding Faculty Director of the Collective for Racial and Disability Justice at UCLA Law and a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies program.
Prof. 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.
Her articles on criminal law and procedure, disability rights, and civil rights have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and American Criminal Law Review, among others.
Before joining the UCLA Law faculty, Morgan was a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, and the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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 on affirmative action, structural racism, and gender inequality.
Bibliography
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- Some Thoughts on Outsiders within the Legal Academy, 94 UMKC L. Rev. 703 (2026). Full Text
- DisCrit Legal Studies (DCLS): A Method for Legal Analysis (with Kate Caldwell), 71 Wayne L. Rev. 87 (2025). Full Text
- Disability Criminalization: A Primer (with Samantha Santoro), 62 American Criminal Law Review 1127 (2025). Full Text
- "Ain't Nobody about to Trap Me": The Violence of Multi-System Collusion and Entrapment for Incarcerated Disabled Girls of Color (with Brianna Harvey, Brian Cabral, and Subini Ancy Annamma), 23 J. Sch. Violence 202 (2024). Full Text
- Psychiatric Holds and the Fourth Amendment, 124 Col. L. Rev. 5 (2024). Full Text
- Toward Abolitionist Remedies: Police (Non)Reform Litigation after the 2020 Uprisings (with Cara McClellan)), 51 Fordham Urban Law Journal 635. Full Text
- An Abolitionist Critique of Quality-of-Life Policing, 69 UCLA L. Rev. 1624 (2023). Full Text
- On the Relationship Between Race and Disability, 58 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 201 (2023). Full Text
- Contesting the Carceral State with Disability Frames: Challenges and Possibilities, 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1905 (2022). Full Text
- Disability, Policing, and Punishment: An Intersectional Approach, 75 Oklahoma Law Review 169 (2022). Full Text
- Responding to Abolition Anxieties: A Roadmap for Legal Analysis, 120 Michigan Law Review 1199 (2022). Full Text
- Disability's Fourth Amendment, 122 Columbia Law Review 489 (2022). Full Text
- Why Disability Studies in Criminal Law and Procedure?, 71 Journal of Legal Education 124 (2021). Full Text
- Rethinking Disorderly Conduct, 109 California Law Review 1637 (2021). Full Text
- Policing Under Disability Law, 73 Stanford Law Review 1401 (2021). Full Text
- Policing Marginality in Public Space, 81 Ohio State Law Journal 1045 (2020). Full Text
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- Youth Incarceration & Abolition (with Subini Annamma), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-37 (2022). Full Text