Alina Das

Alina Das is a professor of clinical law at the New York University School of Law. She co-teaches and co-directs the Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she and her students represent immigrants and community organizations in litigation and advocacy to advance immigrants’ rights locally and across the country. She also serves as the faculty director of the NYU Latinx Rights Scholars Program. Das’ research focuses on deportation and detention issues, particularly at the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Das has worked as a staff attorney with the Immigrant Defense Project and clerked for the Hon. Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University, a J.D. from NYU’s School of Law, and an M.P.A. from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.