Jaya Ramji-Nogales

Jaya Ramji-Nogales is associate dean for research and the I. Herman Stern Research Professor at Temple Law School, where she teaches refugee law and policy and supervises the Temple Law Asylum Project.  Recent scholarly works examine the intersection of race, immigration law, and national security; apply infrastructures literature and governance theory to the laws and policies that construct the southwestern U.S. border; and consider sites of knowledge production in refugee and asylum law.  Prior publications explore the concept of global migration law; assess the U.S. asylum adjudication system through quantitative and qualitative empirical studies; catalogue the Trump administration’s attacks on the asylum system; and analyze comparative law and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ramji-Nogales is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law.