Published March 20, 2014 This content is archived.
Anjana Malhotra, associate professor in the UB Law School, has been named to Lawyers of Color’s “50 Under 50” list, a comprehensive catalog of the most influential minority law professors 50 years of age or younger. The list will be released April 7 in the publication’s Law School Diversity Issue.
Malhotra’s scholarship centers on issues in immigration law, constitutional law and international human rights, with a particular focus on substantive theories of equality and access to justice.
Before joining the UB Law faculty, Malhotra taught at the Seattle ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law as the inaugural Fred T. Korematsu Clinical Fellow, where she developed and co-taught the Civil Rights Amicus and Impact Litigation Clinic. A magna cum laude graduate of Duke ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, she majored in anthropology and served as a university representative to the 1995 NGO Forum on Women in Beijing. Malhotra went on to earn her JD cum laude from New York ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar.
Lawyers of Color (LOC) was founded as On Being A Black Lawyer, but now also produces publications for current and future lawyers of South Asian-American, Pacific Asian-American, Hispanic and Native-American descent. LOC has been recognized by the American Bar Association, National Black Law Students Association and National Association of Black Journalists.