Anil Kalhan is an Associate Professor of Law at the Earle Mack School of Law at
Drexel University. 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 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 also currently
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. He 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 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. 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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