Anjum Gupta is the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic in Newark and teaches
nonclinical courses in Refugee Law and Professional Responsibility. She
writes in the areas of refugee law, and her articles have appeared in
the Indiana Law Journal, Colorado Law Review, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
Professor Gupta received her B.A. with high honors in psychology and
women's studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her J.D.
from Yale Law School, where she was an Equal Justice America Fellow, director of the Temporary Restraining Order Project Domestic Violence
Clinic, director of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference, and an
editorial board member of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
She also worked at the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project and the National
Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Professor Gupta clerked for the
Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit and the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Gupta served as assistant professor of law and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic
at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she supervised
students representing immigrants seeking various forms of relief before
the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board
of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts of appeals. She also
served as a clinical teaching fellow in the Center for Applied Legal
Studies at Georgetown Law, where she supervised students representing
asylum seekers.
She began her law teaching career as a clinical fellow at the Center
for Social Justice at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she
supervised students and represented clients in cases involving asylum,
human trafficking, domestic violence, immigrant labor rights, and
criminal immigration issues. She also authored an amicus brief to the
United States Supreme Court and traveled to Haiti as part of the Haiti
Rule of Law Project.
At Rutgers, she serves as the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic
in Newark. In the clinic, she supervises students representing
immigrants seeking various forms of relief before immigration courts,
the Department of Homeland Security, the Board of Immigration Appeals,
and the federal courts of appeals.
She also teaches nonclinical courses in Refugee Law and Professional Responsibility. She serves on the national board of the Clinical Legal
Education Association, and has spoken at or organized numerous regional
and national conferences in immigration law and clinical education.
Professor Gupta's scholarship focuses on immigration and refugee law,
with a particular focus on gender-based claims for relief.
