Professor Yuille

About

Lua Kamál Yuille is an interdisciplinary scholar whose current work connects property theory, business law, economics, critical pedagogy, and group identity. Professor Yuille's diverse professional praxis--federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono immigration litigation practitioner--provides a strong foundation for her engaged scholarship on a wide range of questions. Her recent projects include studies of the economics and pedagogy of street gang identity and control mechanisms, corporate personality, and the communicative impact of citizenship law and policy. She has also written about and studied U.S. immigration and asylum law, the European Union, law and religion, law and economics, employment discrimination, and jurisprudence.

To students, Professor Yuille is  a dedicated and innovative critical pedagogue and mentor. She was given her first teaching “job” when she was assigned a class of toddlers during fourth grade. Since that time, she has taught or developed courses for students at every level from preschool to law school. In 2017, her teaching excellence was recognized by the Society of American Law Teachers.

Professor Yuille’s formal education and pedigree includes training in fields ranging from cognitive science, international relations, and computer engineering to economics, education, and law. Her academic credentials include degrees from Columbia University School of Law, the Johns Hopkins University, and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). And, besides English, she is fluent in Spanish and Italian. She credits her most enduring education to the varied experiences she has had as a schoolteacher, a socioeconomic development lawyer, an action researcher, a corporate attorney, and a praxivist doing service all over the world.