Nina Farnia

Nina is a law professor and legal historian whose scholarship exposes the role of imperialism in US law and politics. Her forthcoming book is entitled Imperialism and Resistance (Stanford University Press 2026), and is based on her dissertation, Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law, 1940-2008, which won the 2023 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Her second book will focus on the legal history of US fascism, and is tentatively titled Imperialism and Fascism.