Jamelia Morgan

Biography

Associate Professor of Law and Robert D. Glass Scholar, University of Connecticut School of Law

Professor Morgan’s teaching and current scholarship focus on issues at the intersections of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. Her research examines 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. Her research projects have explored the ways in which political discourse over race-conscious remedies influence how antidiscrimination claims and remedies are conceptualized in court opinions involving voter discrimination and disability discrimination. Read more.