Job title:
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice
Bio/CV:
She is a scholar of immigration law and citizenship theory whose research examines how law is shaped by culture and identity.
Volpp currently directs the campus-wide Center for Race and Gender(opens in a new tab), and is an affiliate of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Institute for European Studies, and is a core faculty member of the Othering and Belonging LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993, Volpp clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson ’62 of the Northern District of California, and then worked as a public interest lawyer for several years. Volpp served as a Skadden Fellow at Equal Rights Advocates and the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, both in San Francisco; as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.; and as a staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project in New York City.
She began teaching at the American University, Washington College of Law in 1998 and visited at UCLA School of Law in 2004-05.
