Allegra McLeod
Georgetown University
Allegra McLeod came to Stanford after receiving a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, McLeod clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and served as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow providing pro bono representation to immigrants detained at the California-Mexico border. McLeod’s Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Exporting U.S. Criminal Justice: Crime, Development, and Empire After the Cold War," addressed the globalization of U.S. criminal procedural and transnational crime control models. In her dissertation, she systematically examined the range of U.S. government programs engaged in foreign criminal justice reform, the functions these programs fulfilled in terms of fashioning a regime for global governance and neoliberal restructuring during the 1990s and beyond, and their not infrequently devastating effects on the ground in recipient locations.
Current Appointment: Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
