Professor Kanwar joins the faculty from private practice, where she was a senior staff associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Since 2001, she has practiced in the areas of complex mass torts and insurance litigation; general litigation; products liability; securities litigation; and general torts and contract law. Before that, she was a legal information analyst at Lawnavigator.com. At Vermont Law School, she was editor of Res Communes, Vermont Law School’s Environmental Journal; and she won “Best Paper” in the J.B. Chase Writing Competition for her paper, “Preserving Gypsy Culture through Romani Law in America,” which was published in the Vermont Law Review in the spring of 2000.