Ahilan Arulanantham

Ahilan Arulanantham is professor from practice and co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. He both teaches and maintains an active litigation practice. Arulanantham has successfully litigated a number of cases involving migrants’ rights and has argued three times before the U.S. Supreme Court, most recently in the fall of 2021 on behalf of Americans of the Muslim faith who were targeted by the FBI for surveillance because of their religion. Prior to joining UCLA, he was senior counsel at the ACLU in Los Angeles, where he worked for nearly 20 years. Arulanantham also worked as an assistant federal public defender in El Paso, Texas, and as a law clerk in the Ninth Circuit. In 2016, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka a “Genius Grant”). He earned his J.D. at Yale Law School.