Jasmine E. Harris, JD, is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is a leading law and inequality scholar with expertise in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence. Her recent academic articles have appeared or will appear in top law reviews and journals such as Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Harris serves as a co-editor of the preeminent evidence treatise, McCormick on Evidence, and as a co-reporter for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s Committee on Model Civil Jury Instructions. She also writes frequently about disability law for popular audiences, with bylines and commentary in such publications and media outlets as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio (NPR).
She clerked for Harold Baer Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and practiced complex commercial litigation at WilmerHale and public interest law at the Advancement Project. Harris serves as a board member of two of the largest disability rights organizations in the country: The Arc of the United States and Disability Rights California. She graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.
