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Erin Islo

Bio

Professor Erin Islo, an expert on civil procedure, arbitration, algorithmic bias and economic justice, joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2023 as assistant professor of law. Her work utilizes philosophical, legal and empirical methods to explore the rights of consumers and workers and the civil and criminal regulation of the family. She researches the substantive impact of procedural mechanisms in the law and the normative basis and material consequences of family intervention and regulation. Professor Islo is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Princeton University, where she is completing a dissertation on the metaphysical foundations of ethical and political thought in early modern Europe.

Before pursuing her PhD, Islo clerked for Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She is a recipient of the Watson Fellowship, one of several grants that have supported her transnational research on the structure and regulation of the family and the well-being of children in crisis. Islo received a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, a master’s degree from KU Leuven and a JD from Yale Law School. During law school, she was elected president of First-Generation Professionals and was a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.

Fields of Expertise

• Civil Procedure
• Economics and the Law
• Federal Jurisdiction
• Law and Technology