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Paulina D. Arnold is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, specializing in areas related to coercive state power, criminal law, civil procedure, civil confinement, and immigration law. Her research focuses on the justifications for civil confinement and the formal legal doctrines that restrict or permit governmental power to incarcerate. She critically examines the tensions and incoherencies between civil and criminal carceral systems, interrogating the state's power to confine individuals in the absence of explicitly punitive goals. Before her current position, Arnold was a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School and served as a staff attorney at CASA Maryland, where she supported working-class immigrant communities through direct representation and legislative advocacy while assisting in impact litigation. Arnold's featured scholarship includes her work on how immigration detention has become a distinct legal issue in the Stanford Law Review.
University of Michigan Law School • Ann Arbor, MI
Teaches and researches in the areas of coercive state power, criminal law, civil procedure, civil confinement, and immigration law.
Tulane Law School •
CASA Maryland •
Supported working-class immigrant communities through direct representation and legislative advocacy.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science