Anil Kalhan is a Professor of Law at the Drexel University Kline School of Law and a Professor (by courtesy) at the Drexel University Center for Science, Technology, and Society. He also is an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management, and an A.B. from Brown University, and after law school he served as law clerk to the Hon. Chester J. Straub (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York). He also previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he served as co-coordinator of the firm’s immigration and international human rights pro bono practice group, and with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York. Before attending law school, he worked for Cable News Network, PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and the New York City Department of Transportation.
Professor Kalhan writes and teaches in areas including immigration law, constitutional law, legislation and regulation, privacy and surveillance, and international human rights, and he has worked extensively on academic freedom issues in a variety of capacities. Since 2020, he has served as a member of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors, and he also has served as a member of AAUP’s Special Committee on Florida, which investigated and published two reports in 2023 examining the politically motivated attacks on academic freedom and shared governance in the state’s public higher education system. He previously served on the Law and Society Association’s Task Force on Academic Freedom and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the Association of American Law Schools. He also has contributed extensively to the work of numerous committees of the New York City Bar Association, including its International Human Rights Committee (which he chaired from 2015 to 2018), Task Force on the Rule of Law, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, International Law Committee, and Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law.
During the 2021–22 and 2022–23 academic years, Professor Kalhan was a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He also has taught at New York University School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Columbia Law School and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. An elected member of the American Law Institute and fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he received the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty’s Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award in 2018.
