Leigha Crout

Leigha Crout is a Rule of Law Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School and a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her research interests include constitutional law, international law, and human rights. Previously, she served as a Senior C.V. Starr Lecturer at Peking University in Shenzhen, China, where she taught transnational legal practice and a seminar on comparative law. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in several books and law journals, including Washington University Law Review, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and with Cambridge University Press. Leigha has been invited to share her work at Harvard Law School, the Overseas Chinese Women Protection Project, and as a Berger Panelist at Cornell Law School's Berger International Legal Studies Program, among other engagements. She received her Master's in International Development from Cornell University and her J.D. and LL.M. with high honors (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame.

CLD Research Brief, 2021: Economic Migration of African Migrants to China in the Era of COVID-19: Tensions and Transitions