Faculty
Allison Brownell TirresAssistant Professor of Law |
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Biography Professor Tirres joined the College of Law faculty in 2007. She received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 and then studied for a year in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. The following year, she served as the assistant director of an educational nonprofit in Boston. In 2001, she received a master’s degree in history from Harvard University. In 2004, Tirres received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. She was the first Cleary, Gottlieb, Hamilton & Steen fellow at the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinic of Greater Boston Legal Services. Tirres also worked for the Immigration Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas and for the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell in Memphis, Tennessee. A legal historian, Tirres’s research and publications focus on borders, property law, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2008, she received a doctorate in history from Harvard. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the legal history of the U.S.-Mexico border, looking in particular at the dynamics of local law during the transition from Mexican to American sovereignty. |
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Courses Property, Legal History, Immigration Law & Policy |
Education B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Harvard University (History); J.D., Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University (History) |
