Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, (with honors)
M.A., English, University of California, Irvine
B.A., English, Stanford University, (with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa honors)

Assistant Professor Almas Khan teaches Legal Analysis and Writing at La Verne Law.

She came to La Verne Law from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was Lecturer of Law and taught legal writing. At Miami, she taught a seminar on political influences on the judiciary, and with the law school’s dean and a colleague co-taught an Elements of Law course.

While a student at the University of Chicago Law School, she was an articles editor for the Chicago Journal of International Law, and a participant in the school’s Employment Discrimination Clinic.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa honors from Stanford University, and recently completed her Master’s of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, where she received an Award of Distinction for her master’s thesis: Lord Jim, the Imperial Romance and the Romance of Imperialism. Her areas of interest include legal writing, constitutional law, law and literature, and political influences on courts.