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Leigha Crout is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London and a Research Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School. She holds a Research Associate position at Oxford University’s China, Law and Development Project. Her expertise spans constitutional law, international law, human rights, and legal reform in China. Previously, she served as a Senior C.V. Starr Lecturer at Peking University, where she taught transnational legal practice and comparative law.
Crout earned a Master’s in International Development from Cornell University and J.D./LL.M. (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame. She has held fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has contributed to legal initiatives like the Cornell Law School Farmworker Clinic.
Her research focuses on China’s legal evolution, including studies on authoritarian legality, constitutional theory, and pandemic-era socio-economic shifts. She has presented at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Hong Kong, among others. Key awards include the Peking University Teaching Competition and the Laura Bassi Scholarship.
Crout’s work intersects with UN Sustainable Development Goals related to education and human rights, addressing topics like Olympic displacement and gendered justice in capital punishment.
