ANJANA MALHOTRA Seattle University School of Law 1215 E. Columbia St., Law Annex Seattle, WA

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1 ANJANA MALHOTRA 1215 E. Columbia St., Law Annex Seattle, WA (917) EDUCATION NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY, J.D., cum laude, May Honors: Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholarship Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize (outstanding work in a clinical course) Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow Robert McKay Award (top 25% in their class after three semesters) Activities: Senior Articles Editor, New York University Review of Law & Social Change Participant, Summer Seminar for Future Law Professors Steering Committee, National Lawyers Guild Co-Chair, South Asian Law Students Association Clinical Placement, Chinese Staff & Worker Association DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC, B.A., magna cum laude, May 1996, Comparative Area Studies, Anthropology. Honors: William J. Griffith Community Service Award High Honors Award for Thesis, An Examination and Analysis of International Resistance Movements During the Globalization of the Garment Industry Activities: Duke University Representative to the 1995 NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China Founder and Member, President s Committee on Diversity ( ) JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP THE HONORABLE HARRY PREGERSON, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Law Clerk August 2002 September 2003 TEACHING EXPERIENCE SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Seattle, WA Fred T. Korematsu Clinical Fellow, August 2011 present Develop and co-teach new Civil Rights Amicus and Impact Litigation Clinic. Supervise clinical students litigating civil rights and immigration cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Washington State Supreme Court and Immigration Court. Teach podium and seminar classes on civil rights and impact litigation, appellate advocacy, statutory interpretation, legal ethics, and client counseling. Create syllabus and in-class problems and oversee classroom and clinical components of the course. Supervise students in all aspects of case and advocacy work, including client counseling, legal research, brief writing, and preparing for oral argument in clinic projects such as: Hoisington v. Williams, No (9th Cir., argument date Oct. 10, 2012), on the constitutionality of strip searches and restraints prior to and after fully-supervised offisland medical visits; an amicus brief arguing that Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct (2010) operates retroactively; and representing student-plaintiffs in Acosta v. Huppenthal, No. 10-cv-623 (D. Ariz., filed Oct. 18, 2010), challenging the constitutionality of an Arizona state statute banning ethnic studies in primary and secondary schools, used exclusively to eliminate the Mexican American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District.

2 Page 2 of 5 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Newark, NJ Practitioner-in-Residence, Immigration and Human Rights/Rule of Law Project, June 2009 July 2011 Supervised extern, pro bono and clinical students on federal, state and immigration court litigation and in human rights advocacy and documentation projects addressing systemic immigration issues in New Jersey. Supervised students in defending immigrants facing removal; in appellate litigation in Yusupov v. Holder, 650 F.3d 968 (3d Cir. 2011), successfully challenging the BIA s denial of asylum to an Uzbeki immigrant on national security grounds; in human rights advocacy challenging the practice of extrajudicial deportations of immigrant patients by U.S. hospitals, including student documentation in Guatemala, available at and in fact finding and reporting project on day laborers in Newark, featured in The New York Times, available at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEWARK SCHOOL OF LAW AND CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND THE GLOBAL CITY Gustav Heningburg Faculty Fellow, September 2010 December 2010 Worked with scholars and civic leaders to address central legal issues facing immigrants in New Jersey. LEGAL AND OTHER EXPERIENCE GLADSTEIN, REIF & MEGINNISS, LLC, New York, NY Associate, February 2007 May 2009 Managed class action and individual litigation on behalf of low-wage workers seeking redress for violations of federal and state labor and employment laws in trial, appellate and administrative courts. Developed litigation strategy, wrote briefs and argued discovery and summary judgment motions, took and defended more than 50 depositions, drafted and responded to discovery requests, and prepared cases for trial. WILMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HALE AND DORR, New York, NY Associate, December 2005 January 2007 Drafted briefs for federal litigation to support immigrants facing removal, womens Title IX claims, and Guantanamo detainees international human rights claims. Assisted in all aspects of securities litigation. THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, New York, NY Aryeh Neier Fellow, September 2003 October 2005 Authored report documenting the U.S. government s post-september 11 abuse of the material witness law to preventively detain Muslim, Middle Eastern and South Asian men without charges, which received international and national media attention. Supervised students in the Yale Law School Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security Clinic in developing national litigation strategy to curb abuses of the material witness law, drafting legislation, and representing material witnesses in federal court, including Ashcroft v. al-kidd, 123 S. Ct (2011). Authored briefings and petitions to international tribunals challenging U.S. human rights violations. Drafted federal appellate briefs defending immigrants constitutional rights. NYU SCHOOL OF LAW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CLINIC, New York, NY Student Advocate, August 2000 May 2002 Represented immigrants in removal proceedings in immigration and federal court by challenging their underlying criminal convictions and applying for relief from deportation. Authored briefs, argued motions and prepared and examined witnesses in federal court. Counseled immigrant groups in legislative campaign to reform New York labor laws.

3 Page 3 of 5 UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC Research Associate, July 1997 August 1999 Researched and wrote strategic organizing reports analyzing companies corporate structure and labor practices to support workers efforts to organize their workplaces. Assisted with organizing and strategy for union organizing campaigns. Prepared and delivered presentations on industry trends to union leaders. AFL-CIO, San Jose, CA Intern Organizer, January 1997 June 1997 Organized home-healthcare and public sector workers with the Service Employees International Union. UNION OF NEEDLETRADES, INDUSTRIAL AND TEXTILE EMPLOYEES, New York, NY Community Organizer, September 1996 January 1997 Developed and taught workshops designed to educate and mobilize students and community groups to support better working conditions in the U.S. garment industry. TEACHING INTERESTS Primary interests: Clinical Teaching in Appellate Litigation, Immigration, Civil Rights, Labor Law and Human Rights. Doctrinal teaching in Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Employment Law. Additional interests: Labor Law, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Federal Courts, and National Security. PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS Miranda and The Immigrant (article will be submitted for publication in August 2012). The Right to Receive and Arizona s Ethnic Studies Ban (in progress). Ironbound Underground: Wage Theft & Workplace Violations Among Day Laborers in Newark s East Ward, July 2010, Seton Hall University School of Law (2010). Pre-Judgment Investigation and Preservation of Defendants Assets in Wage and Hour Litigation, Fall 2009, National Employment Lawyers Association (2009). Witness to Abuse: Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law Since September 11, 17 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 24, Vol. 17 No. 2 (G) (American Civil Liberties Union/HRW) (June 2005). Overlooking Innocence, Refashioning the Material Witness Law to Indefinitely Detain Muslims Without Charges, 2004 International Civil Liberties Report 2 (2004). Indefinite Detention Without Probable Cause: A Comment on INS Interim Rule 8 C.F.R , 26 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 397 (2001). PRESENTATIONS Discussant, Making Human Rights Advocacy in the U.S. Effective, Open Society Institute, New York, NY (May 31, 2012). Moderator, The Role of the Lawyer in Public Interest Movements,, The 25 th Anniversary of the United States v. Hirabayashi Coram Nobis Case: Its Meaning Then and Its Relevance Now, Seattle, WA (Feb. 11, 2012). Speaker, Emerging Immigration Law Scholars and Teachers Conference 2011, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. (May 20, 2011). Moderator, Community Lawyering Symposium, Seton Hall School of Law, Newark, NJ (Feb. 17, 2011).

4 Page 4 of 5 Discussant, Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Northeastern School of Law Program on Human Rights in the Global Economy, Boston, MA (October 14, 2010). Speaker, Beyond Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Coming to a Town Near You, North American South Asian Bar Association Conference, Boston, MA (June 25, 2010). Facilitator, Implications of 287(g) Initiatives for Immigrant Women and Immigration Relief for Survivors Domestic Violence, National Coalition of Immigrant Women s Rights Workshop, Newark, NJ (April 7, 2010). Speaker, Challenging Local Law Enforcement Initiatives to Enforce Immigration Laws, Washington College of Law Founder s Day Symposium, American University College of Law, Washington, D.C. (March 29, 2010). Speaker, Medical Repatriation, Litigation before International Human Rights Tribunals-Strategy & Pedagogy, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. (March 19, 2010). Speaker, Immigration Reform: Local Law Enforcement Initiatives and Racial Profiling in New Jersey, South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow Status of South Asians Conference in New Jersey, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ (January 30, 2010). Speaker, Finding and Collecting Defendant s Assets Pre-Judgment Collection Problems and Strategies, National Employment Lawyers Association Conference, Yale Club, New York, NY (October 23, 2009). Speaker, Agency + Surveillance: The Legal Landscape of Surveillance since September 11 and the Consequences for Detention, The Vera List Center at the New School and New York University s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The New School for Social Science Research, New York, NY (March 31, 2008). Speaker, Litigation Strategies for Immigrant Detainees Since September 11, South Asian Bar Association of New York, New York, NY (January 2005). Speaker, Media Advocacy on Immigration and Preventive Detention Issues in the post-september 11 era, Islam and the Media Conference, Social Science Research Center, New York, NY (November 2004). SERVICE AND HONORS Heningburg Faculty Fellow, Gustav Heningburg Civic Fellows Program, Rutgers University (2010). Recipient, Access to Justice Award, Council of American Islamic Relations (April 17, 2010). Board Member and Class Representative, New York University School of Law Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association ( present). Member, Public Interest Fellowship Committee, South Asian Bar Association New York, (2010). Member, Bringing Human Rights Home Network, New York, NY ( present). Member, Universal Periodic Review Migrants Rights Working Group (2010). Coordinator, Legal Aid Network for South Asians, New York, NY ( ). BAR ADMISSIONS New York State, United States District Court for the Southern District New York, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

5 Page 5 of 5 REFERENCES Robert Chang, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development th Avenue, Sullivan Hall PO Box Seattle, WA Telephone: changro@seattleu.edu Lisa Brodoff, Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Clinical Program Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic 1215 E. Columbia, Law Annex PO Box Seattle, WA Telephone: lbrodoff@seattleu.edu Michael Wishnie, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization Yale Law School P.O. Box New Haven, CT Telephone: (203) michael.wishnie@yale.edu Nancy Morawetz, Professor of Clinical Law New York University School of Law 245 Sullivan Street, 5th Floor New York, N.Y Telephone: (212) nancy.morawetz@nyu.edu Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants Rights Project Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School 125 Broad Street, 18 Fl. New York, NY Telephone: (212) lgelernt@aclu.org The Honorable Harry Pregerson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Oxnard St., Ste Woodland Hills, CA Telephone: (818) Harry_Pregerson@ca9.uscourts.gov Additional references available upon request.