Muneer Ahmad appointed the Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law
Yale Law School has named Muneer Iftikhar Ahmad as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law. He focuses his teaching, scholarship, and practice on the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship in both legal theory and legal practice.
Ahmad’s appointment will be effective on July 1.
Ahmad co-teaches the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC). In WIRAC, he and his students represent individuals, groups, and organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to immigration, immigrants’ rights, and labor, and intersections among them. The clinic’s recent work included successfully obtaining the first nationwide injunction against the Trump Administration’s first Muslim Ban, challenging the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and litigating the forcible separation of immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. He also has represented immigrants in a range of labor, immigration, and trafficking cases, and for three years represented a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.
Ahmad’s scholarship includes: “Beyond Earned Citizenship,” 52 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 257 (2017); “Resisting Guantánamo; Rights at the Brink of Dehumanization,” 103 Northwestern Law Review 1683 (2009); and “Interpreting Communities: Lawyering Across Language Difference,” 54 U.C.L.A. Law Review 999 (2007).
KJ