Terry Allen
Terry Allen is a research assistant professor of law and the inaugural Race, Place and Equity Postdoctoral Fellow as part of a University-wide Mellon Foundation program. He is an education law scholar who studies how legal reforms meant to improve the educational experience of historically underrepresented and racially marginalized children can be undermined by competing legal interests. He combines legal analysis with in-depth qualitative methods, including interviews, spatial analysis and other social science methodologies. Allen’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law, education law, civil rights, race and law, and criminal procedure. His forthcoming articles will appear in Georgetown Law Journal and UCLA Law Review, and his recent articles have appeared in Social Problems and Educational Researcher.
Allen earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also earned his M.A. in education policy from Columbia University and B.A. in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. During this time at UCLA, he served as the editor-in-chief of the UCLA Law Review. After law school, Allen worked for Baker McKenzie. Before law school, he worked in various research capacities at organizations such as Meta, RAND Corp., the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Government Accountability Office.