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Anita Sinha is Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) at 51²è¹Ý Washington College of Law (WCL). Professor Sinha’s area of expertise and scholarly interests include critical migration studies, migrant detention and migration control broadly, and international refugee law. Her work has been published in Boston College Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and other legal and scholarly publications. Professor Sinha has been cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press, and is an opinion contributor for The Hill. She joined the WCL faculty in 2012, after more than 10 years of litigation and advocacy experience on behalf of underserved communities. She supervises IHRLC students’ representation of non-citizens in the U.S. immigration system, foreign nationals and U.S. citizens before international human rights bodies, and marginalized communities globally in transnational and international human rights policy advocacy projects.

Professor Sinha began her career as a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina she led civil rights litigation and human rights advocacy on behalf of displaced communities in the Gulf Coast. Professor Sinha has taken on leadership roles relating to clinical education nationally, including serving as Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education and planning committee member of the International Human Rights Clinicians’ Conference and the AALS and Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) New Clinicians’ Conference. Professor Sinha received the prestigious 2020 AALS M. Shanara Gilbert award given to a clinician for commitment to teaching and achieving social justice, and a national honorable mention by CLEA in the category of Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project. Professor Sinha is a member of the New York, District of Columbia, and California Bars. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and cum laude from NYU School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for the NYU Law Review.