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Kristina Campbell, J.D.
Director, Beatriz and Ed Schweitzer Border Justice Initiative; The Rita G. and Norman L. Roberts Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law
Kristina M. Campbell is Professor of Law and the Rita G. & Norman L. Roberts Faculty Scholar at Gonzaga University School of Law. She is also the Director of the Beatriz and Ed Schweitzer Border Justice Initiative. Prior to joining Gonzaga Law in...
Kristina M. Campbell is Professor of Law and the Rita G. & Norman L. Roberts Faculty Scholar at Gonzaga University School of Law. She is also the Director of the Beatriz and Ed Schweitzer Border Justice Initiative. Prior to joining Gonzaga Law in 2024, Professor Campbell taught at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) School of Law for 14 years, where she was the Founder and Director of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. She also was a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Law, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and the University of Trento (Italy), where she taught primarily immigration-related courses.
Professor Campbell is a career public interest attorney, and has represented immigrants and refugees in various matters throughout her career in state, federal, and appellate courts. Professor Campbell’s research agenda seeks to contribute to the scholarly literature at the intersection of immigration, civil rights, and race and the law by critiquing and analyzing various laws impacting non-citizens, as well as the legal history of such discriminatory laws in the United States. Her writing has been published in Rutgers Law Review, Syracuse Law Review, Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Harvard Latin American Law Review, and Berkeley La Raza Law Review, among others.
Prior to teaching, Professor Campbell represented farmworkers and other immigrant workers at several legal aid organizations. She also engaged in immigrants’ rights impact litigation as a Staff Attorney and Acting Regional Counsel in the Los Angeles office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). Professor Campbell has been invited to speak across the United States, Mexico, Italy, England, Brazil, and Spain on the subject of immigrants’ rights. She has full professional proficiency in the Spanish language, and enjoys exploring the world with her two teenage daughters.
Professor Campbell is a career public interest attorney, and has represented immigrants and refugees in various matters throughout her career in state, federal, and appellate courts. Professor Campbell’s research agenda seeks to contribute to the scholarly literature at the intersection of immigration, civil rights, and race and the law by critiquing and analyzing various laws impacting non-citizens, as well as the legal history of such discriminatory laws in the United States. Her writing has been published in Rutgers Law Review, Syracuse Law Review, Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Harvard Latin American Law Review, and Berkeley La Raza Law Review, among others.
Prior to teaching, Professor Campbell represented farmworkers and other immigrant workers at several legal aid organizations. She also engaged in immigrants’ rights impact litigation as a Staff Attorney and Acting Regional Counsel in the Los Angeles office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). Professor Campbell has been invited to speak across the United States, Mexico, Italy, England, Brazil, and Spain on the subject of immigrants’ rights. She has full professional proficiency in the Spanish language, and enjoys exploring the world with her two teenage daughters.