Alina Das

Alina Das is an immigrant rights attorney and professor at the New York University School of Law. She 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. Her legal scholarship focuses on the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the author of No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants (Bold Type Books 2020). Das previously worked as an 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.