Anil Kalhan’s principal interests include immigration law, criminal law, U.S. and
comparative constitutional law, and international human rights law.
Before coming to the law school, he was a visiting assistant professor at Fordham
University Law School and an associate in law at Columbia Law School. 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).
Professor Kalhan is an affiliated faculty member at the South Asia Center at the
University of Pennsylvania and a faculty advisory board member for the Drexel University
Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, and is a founding co-convener of the Drexel
Summer Theory Institute. He currently is a member of the Immigration and Nationality Law
Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and previously was a
member of its International Law Committee and International Human Rights Committee. He
also serves on the board of directors of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and
the national council of advisors for South Asian Americans Leading Together.
Professor Kalhan has been a contributing writer for Dorf on Law, AsiaMedia, and
SAJAforum. He was the recipient of a 2008 SAJA Journalism Award and a finalist for a 2011
SAJA Journalism Award from the South Asian Journalists Association. 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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