Emily Amin is State Policy counsel at Pacific Legal Foundation, where she develops and advances state-level reforms to protect individual liberties. Her work emphasizes equality and opportunity, property rights, separation of powers, and reforms to environmental and natural resources regulation.
Emily earned her J.D. from Belmont University College of Law, where she served on the Board of Advocates. During law school, she clerked for the Beacon Center of Tennessee, Goldwater Institute, and Pacific Legal Foundation, gaining experience working within the liberty movement and advancing constitutional and free market principles.
She also holds an M.A. in early modern English history from the University of Alabama, where her research examined how criminal law and public narratives were used in the 17th century to reinforce social hierarchy and political order.
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband Jonathan and their two cats, Soren and Hal. In her free time, she tends to be reading about the long 18th century.
