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Faculty Advisors | Vol. XXIII

The Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties is honored to announce the creation of its inaugural Faculty Advisory Board. The Faculty Advisory Board brings together faculty members whose scholarship and experience align with the Journal's mission of advancing rigorous legal scholarship on civil rights and civil liberties.

  • William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law

Professor Shirin Sinnar specializes in civil procedure and litigation, civil rights, constitutional law, and national security law. Her scholarship focuses on the legal treatment of political violence, the procedural dimensions of civil rights litigation, and the role of institutions in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context.

  • Professor of Law

Professor E. Tendayi Achiume is an international legal scholar focusing on international human rights law, international refugee law and international migration law. Her academic research explores the global governance of racism and xenophobia, the legal and ethical implications of colonialism, and other forms of empire for the governance of international migration. Her work also concerns the legal and political theory of migration, borders and nation-state sovereignty.

  • Stanley Morrison Professor of Law
  • Faculty Co-Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Professor David Sklansky teaches and writes about policing, prosecution, criminal law and the law of evidence. He is the faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and a member of the American Law Institute.

  • Professor of Law
  • Justin M. Roach, Jr. Faculty Scholar
  • Professor, by courtesy, History

Professor Rabia Belt is an advocate for people with disabilities and a legal historian whose research focuses on disability and citizenship. Her scholarship ranges from cultural analysis of disability in media, contemporary issues facing voters with disability, to the historical treatment of disabled Americans.

  • Professor of the Practice of Law

Professor Lucas Guttentag is one of the nation’s leading experts on immigration law and the rights of non-citizens. Professor Guttentag founded the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, successfully argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal and state courts, and regularly advises advocates, NGOs, philanthropies, and government entities. His scholarship and public writing focus on immigration, civil rights, and public policy.

  • Associate Professor of Law

Professor Evelyn Douek specializes in law and technology, first amendment, online speech regulation, and content moderation. She teaches and writes about freedom of speech and internet regulation.

  • Professor of Law
  • Director, Immigrants' Rights Clinic

Professor Jayashri Srikantiah is the founding director of the law school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Professor Srikantiah’s research and scholarly work explores the role of administrative discretion in immigration decision making in various areas as well as the pedagogy of multi-modal law clinics. She is a frequent speaker on various immigration topics, including comprehensive immigration reform, the constitutional rights of immigrants, and immigration detention.

  • Assistant Professor of Law
  • Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Professor Easha Anand is an Assistant Professor of Law and co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, where she represents employees, noncitizens, consumers, unions, criminal defendants, and civil rights plaintiffs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law
  • Vice Dean

Professor Jennifer Chacón researches issues that arise at the nexus of immigration law, constitutional law, and criminal law and procedure. Her writings elucidate how legal frameworks on immigration and law enforcement shape individual and collective understandings of racial and ethnic identity, citizenship, civic engagement, and social belonging.

  • Professor of Law
  • Director of the Stanford Community Law Clinic
  • Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service

Professor Juliet Brodie directs the Stanford Community Law Clinic. She has expertise in tenants’ rights, access to justice, poverty law, clinical education, and direct legal services generally. She co-edited two editions of Poverty Law, Policy, & Practice (Wolters Kluwer 2d ed., 2020) and has published articles on the mutually reinforcing values of clinical legal education and community lawyering. Her recent scholarly interest has been in the eviction defense and tenant protection fields.