Amna Akbar is a visiting assistant professor at the OSU Moritz College of Law, teaching the Civil Law Practicum. She is Senior Research Scholar & Advocacy Fellow with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, International Human Rights Clinic, NYU School of Law. Prior to joining NYU she worked at Queens Legal Services overseeing the Asian Battered Women's Project, and clerked in the Southern District of New York. She is a co-producer of the radio program Asia Pacific Forum on the Pacifica Network's WBAI in New York City, which focuses on Asian American politics, news, and culture.
Akbar received her B.A. from Barnard College and her J.D. the University of Michigan, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. After law school she clerked for Judge Gerard E. Lynch in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She spent two years as a staff attorney with the Queens Legal Service Corp., part of Legal Services NYC, and taught for three years as a clinical fellow with the International Human Rights Clinic at New York University, and one year at City University of New York Law School in the CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility) project, a cross-clinical collaboration between the Immigrant & Refugee Rights Clinic and the Defenders Clinic. Her research focuses on the intersections of national security and criminal law.
Sponsored by the Precarity and Social Contract Working Group of the Humanities Institute.
