Thomas E. Kadri

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Professor, School of Law, University of Miami

Professor Kadri is a professor of law at the University of Miami and a senior fellow at the Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing. He previously taught at the University of Georgia School of Law and remains an associate with UGA’s Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. He has also been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute and a visiting scholar at Insper São Paulo. He serves as Legislative & Policy Director at Cornell’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse, where he advises lawmakers and technology companies on tech-enabled abuse and has provided expert testimony before committees in the U.S. Congress and the Massachusetts Legislature. Earlier in his career, while in law school, he worked with the Federal Public Defender in Ohio and assisted the legal team in the landmark Supreme Court case recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. He then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Raised in a Lebanese-British family, Professor Kadri spent much of his childhood in England and France. He earned a degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews before moving to the United States as a Bobby Jones Scholar at Emory University. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Henry M. Bates Award, the school’s highest graduation honor. He then earned his Ph.D. in Law from Yale Law School as a Mellon Fellow.