Anil Kalhan is an Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University’s Earle Mack
School of Law. Before coming to Drexel, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham
University Law School and an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School, and he previously
worked as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he also
served as co-coordinator of the firm’s immigration and international human rights pro
bono practice group. He also has previously worked for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights
Project in New York and served as law clerk to the Hon. Chester J. Straub (U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit) and the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch (U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York). He currently serves on the board of directors of the
South Asian Bar Association of New York, the national council of advisors for South Asian
Americans Leading Together, and the advisory board of the Discrimination and National
Security Initiative of the Harvard University Pluralism Project, and is an affiliated
faculty member at the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a
contributing writer for Dorf on Law, AsiaMedia, and SAJAforum, and was a recipient of a
2008 Journalism Award from the South Asian Journalists Association. He previously was a
member of the International Law Committee and International Human Rights Committee of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Before attending law school, he worked
for Cable News Network, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and the New York City Department of
Transportation.
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