Constitution Day 2026

 

 

Alina Das is a Professor of Law and James Weldon Johnson Professor at NYU School of Law, where she serves as Co-Director of the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic. For the past two decades, she has defended the rights of immigrants facing detention and deportation, including activists and leaders of the immigrant rights movement. She specializes in litigation and advocacy at the intersection of the U.S. immigration and criminal legal systems. Her legal scholarship has been published by leading law journals and cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the author of No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants (April 2020).   

Professor Das is the recipient of numerous awards for her advocacy and teaching, including the Immigrant Defense Project Champion of Justice Award, the Daniel Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law, the New York State Youth Leadership Council Outstanding Attorney Award, the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award, and the NYU Law School Podell Distinguished Teaching Award. She clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and is a graduate of Harvard University, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and NYU School of Law.