Emmanuel Mauleón

Professor Emmanuel Mauleón joined Minnesota Law as an Associate Professor of Law in 2024. His scholarship examines the roles that police and other state security actors play in producing social, political, and legal regimes of domination and subordination. He has taught courses in Criminal Procedure, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theories of Policing, Property, Race, Sexuality, and the Law, and Latines and the Law.

Before joining Minnesota Law, Professor Mauleón taught at UCLA School of Law as the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Teaching Fellow, affiliated with the Critical Race Studies Program and the Williams Institute. He also worked at the Brennan Center for Justice as a Liberty and National Security Fellow, at NYU’s Policing Project as its inaugural Policing and Technology Fellow, and clerked for Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

His academic writing has appeared in the California Law Review and UCLA Law Review, and he has written for general audiences in venues including the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Blog. His legal commentary has appeared in outlets such as NPR’s Fresh Air, Minnesota Public Radio, TIME, The Economist, and The Intercept, among others.

Professor Mauleón earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where he served as a senior editor of the UCLA Law Review and chief developmental editor of the Chicanx-Latinx Law Review. He studied creative expression and social movements at the University of Minnesota and NYU Gallatin and received a B.F.A. in Painting with Highest Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.