The City University Of New York School Of Law Would Like to Announce the Faculty Members Recognized for Their Commitment to Teaching, Scholarship, And Service by Being Granted Tenure by The Board of Trustees.
Congratulations to the following faculty for their commitment to teaching law in the service of human needs.
Nermeen Arastu is an Associate Professor of Immigration Law at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law. She and her students represent non-citizens through all aspects of the immigration system with the express mission of representing those who are most marginalized. Her writing, scholarship, and advocacy focus on racial and religious disparities in our nation’s immigration adjudication and enforcement. Most recently her writing and scholarship have been published in the UCLA Law Review, Newsweek, City Limits, and Slate. Nermeen was recognized with the 2025 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project for her work with the Credible Fear Interview Orientation Project.
Jeena Shah is an Associate Professor at CUNY School of Law, where she teaches Fourteenth Amendment, International Law, and Critical Race Theory and has been recognized for excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Jeena’s scholarship has appeared in the Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Clinical Law Review, and others. Previously, she directed the International Human Rights Clinic at Rutgers Law, where she supported grassroots movements for racial, economic, and LGBTQ justice. She also litigated major human rights cases at the Center for Constitutional Rights and worked with community-based law offices in Haiti and India. Jeena has appeared on various media outlets, including Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera, to discuss human rights issues. She helped found and direct the Movement Lawyering Boot Camp, a joint initiative between Law for Black Lives and Movement Law Lab.
John Whitlow is an Associate Professor at CUNY School of Law, where he teaches in the Community and Economic Development Clinic and leads its Housing Justice and Tenant Power Practice. He teaches Property Law and courses on housing justice and tenants’ rights. John’s writing has appeared in popular and academic forums, including The New York Times, the Albuquerque Journal, the Law and Political Economy Blog, the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and the CUNY Law Review. Before joining the Law Faculty, John was a public interest attorney at Make the Road New York and the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project.