Nermeen Arastu

Associate Professor, Immigration Law

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Nermeen Arastu is an Associate Professor of Immigration Law at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law. She and her students represent non-citizens through all aspects and postures of the immigration system with the express mission of representing those who are most marginalized. Her writing, scholarship, and advocacy focus on racial and religious disparities in our nation’s immigration adjudication and enforcement. Most recently her writing and scholarship have been published in the UCLA Law Review, Newsweek, City Limits and Slate.