Eve is an Australian-born legal scholar, anthropologist, and historian specializing in authoritarianism, legal pluralism, human rights, and the politics of higher education. She serves as a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), holding affiliated appointments across the School of Law, Department of Anthropology, and Department of Criminology, Law & Society. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a BA in History from the University of Melbourne, a Master’s in Sociocultural Anthropology from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Her interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship focuses on the structural intersections of state power, global governance, and systemic crises. Her work tracks how rising anti-democratic trends manifest across environmental and educational landscapes. Her award-winning book Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2022) examines the political economies connecting right-wing populist regimes to global environmental degradation. Her acclaimed monograph Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025) provides a critical comparative framework analyzing how contemporary authoritarian leaders manipulate curriculum controls, surveillance systems, and structural funding limits to subvert academic freedom and hollow out institutional democratic guardrails.
A longtime leader within global legal networks, she co-edits the Global and Insurgent Legalities book series with Duke University Press and serves on the board of trustees for the Law and Society Association (LSA).