Anjum Gupta, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been re-elected to a second three-year term on the national Board of Directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). During her first term, she chaired the CLEA Awards Committee and served on the Conferences Committee and the Clinical Law Review Editorial Board Selection Committee
The Immigrant Rights Clinic, which Gupta founded in 2012, represents immigrants seeking various forms of relief from removal and also engages in policy advocacy and legal education efforts on behalf of immigrants. “Freed but not Free: A Report Examining the Current Use of Alternatives to Immigration Detention,” the clinic’s 2012 report coauthored with the American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program, was the first to shed light on the flaws, inconsistencies, and human impact of alternative to detention programs in New Jersey and nationally. The report has been cited in numerous media articles about ankle monitors and other alternatives to detention.
Professor Gupta also has overseen the planning of two major conferences held at the law school: “Immigrant Detainees: Alone, Unrepresented & Imprisoned” and “Building Justice: Increasing Quality Immigration Representation in New Jersey.” In 2012 she co-chaired the planning committee for the first Immigration Clinicians’ Workshop and is currently chair of the planning committee of the Emerging Immigration Scholars’ Conference, to be held at the University of Miami School of Law in June 2015.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Gupta clerked for Judge Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She began her legal teaching career as a Clinical Fellow at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall School of Law and later served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown Law. She joined the Rutgers faculty in 2011 from the University of Baltimore School of Law where she was an assistant professor and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
Professor Gupta teaches Professional Responsibility and Refugee Law in addition to the Immigrant Rights Clinic. Her scholarship focuses on immigration and refugee law, with a particular focus on gender-based claims for relief.
Professor Gupta together with Clinical Professor Charles Auffant of the Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic, who recently concluded his tenure as co-chair of the AALS Clinical Section, continues a Rutgers–Newark Law tradition of national leadership in the clinical legal education community.
