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Ariela Gross is Distinguished Professor of Law and History at UCLA, specializing in legal history with focus on slavery, race, and citizenship. Her award-winning scholarship examines law's role in constructing racial identity from slavery through civil rights movements.
Research focuses on:
- Legal construction of racial identity in slavery and freedom
- Comparative racial regimes across the Americas
- Law as instrument of racial capitalism
Her publications include 'Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana' (2020), winner of multiple book prizes. Current work investigates constitutional histories of race-consciousness.
Honors include the Order of the Coif Award, John Philip Reid Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship.
She has held visiting positions at Stanford, Harvard, Kyoto University, and Sciences Po, contributing to public discourse through op-eds in major publications.
