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Amna Akbar is an American academic and professor of law. She is a Sullivan &Cromwell Visiting professor of law at Harvard University and previously worked at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She studies social movements,policing,race,and inequality. [1] She was named a 2021 Freedom Scholar. [2]
Akbar's work has appeared in several law journals,and she also publishes popular essays and op-eds. For 2023–2024,Akbar taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. [1] [3]
Professor Akbar also taught at New York University School of Law and the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan,she was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. [1]
Akbar clerked for Judge Gerard E. Lynch in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and worked as an attorney. [1]
In 2021,Akbar and five other scholars were given a Freedom Scholar Award by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for leading research in the fields of "abolitionist,Black,feminist,queer,radical,and anti-colonialist studies". The annual award amounts to $250,000 over two years,which the scholars may use however they like. [4]