Jamelia Morgan

Professor of Law

  • B.A. Stanford University
  • M.A. Stanford University
  • J.D. Yale Law School

Professor Jamelia 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.

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.

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.

Bibliography

  • Articles And Chapters
    • 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
    • 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
  • Working Papers
    • Youth Incarceration & Abolition (with Subini Annamma), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-37 (2022). Full Text
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