Leigha Crout is an assistant professor of law at DePaul University and a nonresidential fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches Constitutional Law, a rule of law seminar, comparative constitutional law, and other courses.

Professor Crout has previously held academic positions at Syracuse University College of Law as an associate professor; at Stanford Law School as a rule of law fellow; at Wisconsin Law School as a William H. Hastie Fellow; at Columbia Law School as a visiting scholar; with the University of Oxford’s China, Law and Development Project as a research associate; and at Peking University as a senior CV Starr lecturer, where she taught courses on U.S. transnational legal practice and comparative constitutional law.

Professor Crout’s primary research is focused on constitutional law, democracy, and international law and transnational legal networks. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the UC Irvine Law Review, Washington Law Review, Asian Comparative Law Journal, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review; and Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law, among others.

Professor Crout received a BS in public policy and a BA in history from the University of Charleston, a JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School, an LLM in civil and international human rights law from the University of Notre Dame Law School Klau Center, and a master’s in international development from Cornell University. She received her PhD in legal philosophy from King’s College London and admitted to the Illinois State Bar.