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
Review of The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill Jonathan Coppess
Agricultural History
- Legal History
Review of The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century Julianne Couch
Middle West Review
- Legal History
"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