Kimberly White

Kimberly White is an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She is a scholar of U.S. legal history and holds broad interests in local government law, immigration systems, and the role of empire in the construction of the U.S. state.

Her current research examines late 20th century immigrants' legal lives.

White earned her JD from Berkeley Law School where she worked at the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Equal Justice Society. She is currently a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has received support from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation (in consultation with the American Society for Legal History), and The American Historical Association.