Leila Neti specializes in Victorian literature, contemporary Anglophone literature, and law and literature. Her recent book Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2021) explores the shared cultural logic of both legal opinions and novels during the Victorian era. Her published articles have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Law and Literature, Law and Humanities and in various edited collections. She is the Price Professor of English at Occidental College.