Anita Sinha is Professor of Law and Director  of the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) at American University  Washington College of Law (WCL). Professor Sinha’s area of expertise and  scholarly interests include critical migration studies, migrant detention and  migration control broadly, and international refugee law. Her work has been  published in Boston College Law Review,  Brooklyn Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law &  Public Policy, Stanford Journal  of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and other legal and scholarly  publications. Professor Sinha has been cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press, and is an opinion  contributor for The Hill. She  joined the WCL faculty in 2012, after more than 10 years of litigation and  advocacy experience on behalf of underserved communities. She supervises IHRLC  students’ representation of non-citizens in the U.S. immigration system, foreign  nationals and U.S. citizens before international human rights bodies, and  marginalized communities globally in transnational and international human  rights policy advocacy projects.

Professor Sinha began her career as  a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow, and in the aftermath of Hurricane  Katrina she led civil rights litigation and human rights advocacy on behalf of  displaced communities in the Gulf Coast. Professor Sinha has taken on  leadership roles relating to clinical education nationally, including serving  as Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law  Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education and planning committee member  of the International Human Rights Clinicians’ Conference and the AALS and  Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) New Clinicians’ Conference.  Professor Sinha received the prestigious 2020  AALS M. Shanara Gilbert award given to a clinician for commitment to teaching and  achieving social justice, and a national honorable mention by CLEA in the  category of Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project. Professor Sinha is  a member of the New York, District of Columbia, and California Bars. She  graduated summa cum laude from  Barnard College and cum laude from  NYU School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for the NYU Law  Review.