Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Anil Kalhan’s principal interests include immigration law, criminal law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, and international human rights law.
Before coming to Drexel, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Fordham University and an Associate in Law at Columbia University, and he previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he also served as co-coordinator of the firm’s immigration and international human rights pro bono practice group. He also has previously worked for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York and served as law clerk to the Hon. Chester J. Straub (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York).
Professor Kalhan is an affiliated faculty member at the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a faculty advisory board member for the Drexel University Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, and is a founding co-convener of the Drexel Summer Theory Institute. He currently is a member of the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and previously was a member of its International Law Committee and International Human Rights Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and the national council of advisors for South Asian Americans Leading Together.
Professor Kalhan has been a contributing writer for Dorf on Law, AsiaMedia, and SAJAforum. He was the recipient of a 2008 SAJA Journalism Award and a finalist for a 2011 SAJA Journalism Award from the South Asian Journalists Association. Before attending law school, he worked for Cable News Network, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and the New York City Department of Transportation.
