Priya Baskaran is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (ELC). As Director of the Clinic, Professor Baskaran provides pro-bono transactional legal support to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs in D.C. and Virginia. Professor Baskaran’s scholarship, advocacy, and teaching centers on increasing economic opportunity through transactional lawyering.

Prior to joining the Faculty at American University Washington College of Law, Professor Baskaran was an Associate Professor at West Virginia University College of Law where she taught in the Business Law curriculum and served as the Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic. She is an expert in employment-related collateral consequences in West Virginia and recently testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights West Virginia Committee. Professor Baskaran has also taught in the Social Enterprise & Nonprofit Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Visiting Professor and Supervising Attorney.

Professor Baskaran previously worked as a Staff Attorney for the Community and Economic Development Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, where she provided transactional legal services to community based organizations, non-profits, and small businesses in the City of Detroit. Professor Baskaran has also worked on international land use issues as a research fellow for the East West Management Institute. Her work focused on environmental and land use issues with vulnerable populations in Cambodia.

Professor Baskaran is a graduate of New York University and the University of Michigan Law School.