Ingrid Eagly is Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where she teaches Evidence and the Criminal Defense Clinic. She has an extensive public interest background working in the areas of criminal defense and immigrant rights. Immediately prior to her appointment, she served as a trial attorney for the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles.
Professor Eagly is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After law school, she received a Skadden Fellowship to initiate a project on immigrant worker rights at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. She was later awarded a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship to direct a domestic violence program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Professor Eagly served as a law clerk for the Honorable David H. Coar of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois.
Professor Eagly’s research focuses on the intersection between immigration and criminal justice. Her recent scholarship appears in the Northwestern University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the UC Irvine Law Review.