Anita Sinha
Director
Program on Gender, Theory, Law & Practice
Email: asinha@wcl.american.edu
Anita Sinha directs the Program on Gender, Theory, Law & Practice at American University Washington College of Law. Professor Sinha’s areas of expertise and scholarly interests include critical migration studies, migrant detention, and migration control broadly, and international refugee law. Her work has been published in Boston College Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and other legal and scholarly publications. Professor Sinha has been cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press, and is an opinion contributor for The Hill. She joined the WCL faculty in 2012, after more than 10 years of litigation and advocacy experience on behalf of underserved communities. She supervises IHRLC students’ representation of non-citizens in the U.S. immigration system, foreign nationals and U.S. citizens before international human rights bodies, and marginalized communities globally in transnational and international human rights policy advocacy projects.
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Amy Myers
Acting Director of the Gender Justice Clinic and Affiliate Faculty with the Program on Gender, Theory, Law & Practice
Email: amyers@wcl.american.edu
Professor Myers is acting director of WCL's Gender Justice Clinic (formerly, Women and the Law Clinic). Prior to joining the Clinic, Prof. Myers represented clients living in poverty, most recently as legal director at the Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center. Before that role, she worked at the Michigan Poverty Law Program where she launched and supervised the Crime Victims Legal Assistance Project (CVLAP), a statewide program that serves domestic violence survivors in family law, immigration, public benefits, housing, and other matters.
From 2009 through 2016, Amy was a practitioner-in-residence at WCL, where she taught the Domestic Violence Clinic, the Women and the Law Clinic, the International Human Rights Law Clinic, and the Immigrant Justice Clinic. Additionally, she taught courses on family law, domestic violence, and human rights.