Degrees
Expertise
- Critical Race Theory
- Race & Law
- Policing
- Fourth Amendment
- Criminal Procedure
Professor Emmanuel Mauleón joined Minnesota Law as an Associate Professor of Law in 2024. His scholarship examines the relationship between protection and violence in law: how institutions define safety, distribute vulnerability, and authorize coercion in the name of protection. His work focuses particularly on policing and state security across race, immigration status, and other forms of difference, as well as on the ways communities contest and produce alternatives to official forms of protection. 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. In 2026, he received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for tenure/tenure-track teaching.
Before joining Minnesota Law, Professor Mauleón taught at UCLA School of Law as the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Teaching Fellow. Previously, he 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 or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review. His essays and public writing have appeared in Slate, the Law and Political Economy Blog, and Verfassungsblog, among other venues, and his legal commentary has appeared in outlets including NPR’s Fresh Air, Minnesota Public Radio, TIME, The Economist, and The Intercept. In 2026, his work was selected for presentation at the prestigious Equality Law Scholars’ Forum.
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. Before law school, 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.
