Iselin Gambert grew up between New York and Norway and is a teacher, writer, scholar, and activist. Iselin is a professor of legal writing at The George Washington University Law School, where she teaches courses in legal writing, rhetoric and persuasion, and feminist legal theory, as well as a seminar exploring power, privilege, and oppression in law and society through the lens of gender, race, and species. She also directs the law school’s Fundamentals of Lawyering program and is faculty co-director of the GW Law Animal Legal Education Initiative.

Iselin’s academic scholarship addresses the use of language and rhetoric as a tool in cultural, political, and legal debates around sexism, racism, food policy, and the exploitation of nonhuman animals. Her 2019 article Got Mylk? The Disruptive Possibilities of Plant Milk was identified as a ‘Notable and Quotable’ by the Wall Street Journal. Iselin has presented her scholarship at universities and conferences around the world, and was a visiting scholar in Lund University’s Critical Animal Studies Network in Sweden in 2017-18.

Iselin’s personal writing explores themes of home and love, grief and loss, identity and belonging. She is a recipient of a 2019 Aspen Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her essay The Great Chimera was published in 2019 by the Columbia Journal.

More information about Iselin’s writing is here and her full bio is here.