Biography
Jeffrey Omari is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law. His research-which merges ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with doctrinal analysis-sits at the intersection of law, technology, and social science. In addition to his work on internet governance in Brazil, Omari's research also explores digital rights and governance in our current age of misinformation.
As a legal anthropologist, Omari has conducted over 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo where he studied the Brazilian government's implementation of an "internet bill of rights." He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association (Class of 2023) and the current book review co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). Among other outlets, his writing has appeared in Law and Social Inquiry, PoLAR, Washington & Lee Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, and the Michigan Law Review.
Omari was the inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Gonzaga University School of Law. He was also a Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as a consultant in the music legal affairs department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.
