Amna Akbar

Amna Akbar is an American academic and professor of law. She is a Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting professor of law at Harvard University and previously worked at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She studies social movements, policing, race, and inequality. She was named a 2021 Freedom Scholar.

Work Akbar's work has appeared in several law journals, and she also publishes popular essays and op-eds. For 2023 to 2024, Akbar taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.

Professor Akbar also taught at New York University School of Law and the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.