Amanda Frost is a lawyer and legal scholar. She writes and teaches about constitutional law, immigration and citizenship law, federal courts and jurisdiction, and judicial ethics. Currently, she is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. She also writes the “Academic round-up” column for SCOTUSblog.Frost's scholarship has been cited by federal and state courts, and she has testified before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Post, New York Times, Slate, USA Today, and The American Prospect. Her first book, "You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers," was published in 2021.Before entering academia, Frost clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and spent five years as a staff attorney at Public Citizen, where she litigated cases at all levels of the federal judicial system. She has also worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, served as Acting Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar studying transparency reform in the European Union.Frost received her A.B. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.