Rate My Professor Kathryn Abrams

Abrams' research interests include feminist jurisprudence, voting rights and constitutional law, employment discrimination, minority vote dilution, campaign finance, law and the emotions, feminist methodology and epistemology, the jurisprudence of sexual harassment, and cultural and theoretical constructions of women’s agency. She has received major awards such as the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service (Community-Based Teaching) from UC Berkeley in 2018-19, Law and Public Affairs Fellowship at Princeton University in 2016-17, Faculty Bridging Grant from UC Berkeley Committee on Research in 2013-15, Anne Lukingbeal Award from Cornell Law School in 2000, and Nathan Magg Fellowship from Yale Law School in 1983-84. Key publications include her book Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State (University of California Press, 2022); edited volumes Legal Feminism Now (Issues in Legal Scholarship, 2011) and WSQ: Witness (with Irene Kacandes, 2008); and articles such as “Bridging Past and Future: Judge Frank Johnson and Minority Vote Suppression” (Alabama Law Review, 2020), “Emotions in the Mobilization of Rights” (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 2011), “Who’s Afraid of Law and the Emotions?” (with Hila Keren, Minnesota Law Review, 2010), “Law in the Cultivation of Hope” (with Hila Keren, California Law Review, 2007), and “Fighting Fire with Fire: Rethinking the Role of Disgust in Hate Crimes” (California Law Review, 2002).