Research Expertise and Interest

political theory, citizenship and migration studies, feminist theory, American immigration law and policy, democratic theory, First Amendment law

Research Description

Sarah Song is the Milo Rees Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics, Professor of Law, and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at U.C. Berkeley. She is a political theorist with a special interest in issues of citizenship, migration, and belonging as well as questions of justice, equality, and democracy. She is the author of two books, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Immigration and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018) and many articles. During her 17 years at Berkeley, she has taught undergraduate courses, including Theories of Justice and Membership and Migration: Empirical and Normative Perspectives (with Irene Bloemraad), and graduate courses through the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program at Berkeley Law School, including Foundations of Political Philosophy, Citizenship and Immigration, Feminist Theory, and the Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory (with Joshua Cohen). She has also taught First Amendment Law in the JD Program at Berkeley Law.