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Sameer M. Ashar, Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Associate Professor of Law, teaches in the Immigration and Refugee Rights and Community Economic Development Clinics. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Lead Articles Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and edited and organized symposia on political lawyering and economic justice. He received his B.A. in politics and economics with high honors from Swarthmore College.
Professor Ashar has served as a Skadden Fellow with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and as a law clerk for the Honorable Deborah A. Batts of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. He has taught the NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and the University of Maryland School of Law Civil Rights Clinic. He is the author of law review articles on immigration, race, public interest law, and clinical legal education. Professor Ashar has presented at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) conferences, annual meetings of the Law and Society Association, and at numerous law schools, including Berkeley, Seton Hall, Stanford, and Washington University. Professor Ashar is Chair-elect of the Poverty Law Section of AALS, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, and a former board member of the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund and Swarthmore College.
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