Associate professor of law
and
director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic
Professor Gupta received her B.A. with high honors in psychology and women's
studies from the University of Michigan at 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit and the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. 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.
Gupta also
authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court and traveled to
Haiti as part of the Haiti Rule of Law Project. Professor Gupta's scholarship
focuses on immigration and refugee law, with a particular focus on gender-based
claims for relief.
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