Christian Sundquist is a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, and was recently elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. A nationally recognized scholar on technology, race, and the law, Professor Sundquist’s research analyzes the impact of technology on our understanding of racial difference while exploring how science and technology can perpetuate racism and disparate social outcomes. His scholarship is interdisciplinary in nature and has examined issues such as the racialized use of forensic DNA evidence in criminal trials, the identification and amelioration of latent juror racial bias, and the manner in which surveillance technology can normalize and entrench racial discrimination. Professor Sundquist’s current research reconstructs the constitutional right to protest through the lens of critical race technology studies.
Professor Sundquist’s scholarship has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights, the Columbia Journal of Race and Law, the Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, and the N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Technology, Race and the Law at Pitt Law, and has extensive pro bono experience in asylum and refugee law. Before joining the Pitt Law faculty in 2021, Professor Sundquist was a Professor of Law and served as the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at Albany Law School.
View Professor Sundquist’s SSRN.
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center
- BA, Carleton College
Education & Training
- Reconstructing the Right to Protest (work-in-progress)
- Predictive Protest Policing (manuscript)
- Presumed Guilty: “Illegal Alien” Evidence and the Rights of Non-Citizen Defendants, 81 NYU Ann. Surv. Am. L. 19 (2024-2025)
- Surveillance Normalization, 58 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 117 (2023) (solicited article)
- The Racism of Race-Neutrality, 99 Denver Law Review 763 (2022)
- Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Knowledge and the Reconstruction of Law, 70 Journal of Legal Education402 (2021/2022)
- Pandemic Policing, 37 Georgia State Law Review 1339 (2021)
- Surveillance Discrimination, 51 Seton Hall Law Review 1535 (2021)
- Racial Injustice Report, New York State Bar Association (August 2021) (co-author)
Select Academic Presentations
- Panelist, Critical Constitutional Reinvention: CRT, Fascism, and the Future of Racial Justice, as part of the UCLA Critical Race Studies 25th Anniversary Symposium, held at UCLA School of Law on October 24, 2025
- Panelist, Predictive Protest Policing, as part of the 2025 Governing Emerging Technologies annual conference, held at Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on May 19, 2025
- Panelist, AI & Racialized Surveillance and Predictions, as part of the 2025 Symposium on Race, Law, and Artificial Intelligence held by the Center for Race and Law, St. John’s University, School of Law, on March 21, 2025
- Panelist, Teaching CRT Bans, Realities, and Realizing the Fifth Freedom, as part of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (“SEALS”) annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on July 25, 2024
- Speaker, Race and Educational Theory, as part of the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference on “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities,” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 13, 2024
- Panelist, Race, Class, and the American Dream, as part of the ClassCrits annual conference, held at Southwestern Law School on February 11, 2024
- Panelist, Critical Theories of Evidence, as part of the American Association of Law Schools’ annual conference, held in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2024
- Critical Technology and Race Studies
- Racial Surveillance Studies
- Criminal Justice
- Evidence Law and Theory
- Technology and the Law
