Fanna Gamal’s work examines how the law distributes resources needed for individual and collective well-being. Gamal writes in the areas of education law, critical race theory, and law and social movements. In addition to teaching in the law school’s Critical Race Studies program, Gamal directs the Community Lawyering in Education Clinic. Before coming to UCLA, she was an attorney and clinical supervisor at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California, the recipient of an Equal Justice Works fellowship, and a Fellow at New America.

Gamal received her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Gamal’s writing has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, and California Law Review among others.