Leigha C. Crout

Associate Professor of Law 315-443-6562 lccrout@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae

Leigha Crout joins the College of Law in Fall 2024 as an Associate Professor of Law. She will teach Constitutional Law, Torts, and other courses.

Crout served as the inaugural Rule of Law Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School, where she co-taught a course on judicial reforms. She has also held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin School of Law (William H. Hastie Fellow), Columbia Law School (Visiting Scholar), University of Oxford’s China, Law, and Development Project (Research Associate), and at Peking University (Senior C.V. Star Lecturer at the School of Transnational Law), where she taught courses on transnational legal practice and comparative constitutional law.

Her primary research is focused on Constitutional Law, Democracy, and International Law & Transnational Legal Networks (including the Legal Profession & Transnational Networks of Resistance and Authoritarianism, Private International Law & Human Rights.)

Crout’s research has been published or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, Asian Comparative Law Journal, Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, and the Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Crout received a B.S. in public policy and a B.A. in history from the University of Charleston, a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, an LL.M. in civil and international human rights law from the University of Notre Dame Law School Klau Center, and a master’s in international development from Cornell University. Crout is a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London.

Crout is admitted to the Illinois State Bar.