Swethaa Ballakrishnen (they/them) is Assistant Professor of Law (and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Asian American Studies, and Criminology, Law and Society) at the University of California, Irvine.  Primarily oriented within a critical socio-legal praxis, they write, think, and teach about law’s connection to actors/institutions/relationships at the periphery, usually around identities/queers/souths. 

Ballakrishnen’s work has appeared in, among other journals, the Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, International Journal of the Legal Profession, and the Canadian Review of Sociology. Accidental Feminism (Princeton UP 2021) is their first book. Other book projects focus on collaborative legal globalization (Invisible Institutionalisms, ed. w/Sara Dezalay), gendered inheritances of constitutional privacy (Gender Regimes w/Kalpana Kannabiran), and inequ(al)ities in legal education (ed. w/Bryant Garth).