Emily Prifogle, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, is a legal historian researching how individuals, as well as local, state, and federal governments, used legal tools to shape rural communities in the 20th century. She teaches property law, local government law, and a seminar on rural law.
Featured Scholarship
"Rural Social Safety Nets for Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan, 1942-1971"
Law and Social Inquiry
- Labor and Employment Law
"Law & Laundry: White Laundresses, Chinese Laundrymen, and the Origins of Muller v. Oregon"
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
- Race and the Law
- Labor and Employment Law
- Legal History
"Winks, Whispers, and Prosecutorial Discretion in Rural Iowa, 1925-1928"
Annals of Iowa
- Legal History
"Why Women Also Know History"
Journal of Women’s History
- Legal Writing and Research