Email
Phone
(718) 340-4180
Office
170B
Sameer M. Ashar, Associate
Professor and Director of Clinical Programs, directs the Immigration and Refugee Rights
Clinic. 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 enforcement, immigrant labor,
race, public interest law, and clinical legal education. Professor Ashar has
presented at the Association of American Law Schools 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 a member of the AALS
Committee on Public Interest Lawyering and a former board member of the Asian
American Legal Defense & Education Fund and Swarthmore College.
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