Oregon Law's Michelle McKinley was recently named a fellow with Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). McKinley's project was one of five to secure a fellowship out of a large pool of applicants.

The program brings world-class legal experts together to explore the role of law in constituting politics, society, the economy and culture. LAPA Fellows devote the major portion of their time to their own research and writing on law-related subjects of empirical, interpretive, doctrinal and/or normative significance.

Professor McKinley is the Oregon Law Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law. Her chosen LAPA project, "Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America," explores the issues with enslaved women acting as legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery in reference to women who are socially disfavored, economically active and extremely litigious.

For more information, read “Prof. Michelle McKinley named Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs fellow.”

- from the School of Law