Mari Matsuda

Mari Matsuda is a professor at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and a founding figure of Critical Race Theory. She is best known for her scholarship on hate speech—arguing that racist speech causes real harm and should be subject to legal remedy—and for developing the concept of outsider jurisprudence, which foregrounds the legal perspectives of marginalised groups.

Theorised the legal case for hate-speech regulation from a CRT perspective; introduced outsider jurisprudence as a methodology that centres the experiential knowledge of oppressed groups in legal analysis.