Ingrid Eagly

Ingrid Eagly is a professor at UCLA Law and an expert in the intersection between immigration enforcement and criminal justice policy. She has published work on a range of topics, including the criminalization of border crossing, U.S. immigration courts, and detention policy. Her research has also examined the criminal courts and police policy.

Eagly is currently faculty director of the Criminal Justice Program, co-editor of the ImmigrationProf blog, and an affiliated faculty member of the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.

Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Eagly served as a trial attorney for the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellow at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. She clerked for the Honorable David Coar of the Northern District of Illinois. Eagly earned her A.B. from Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.