Biography

Jennifer Lee Koh is the inaugural Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow for the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School, where she supervises students on cases and projects ranging from humanitarian relief from deportation to developing legal arguments for individuals affected by immigration raids.

Prior to joining the law school in 2007, Koh was a litigation associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Palo Alto and New York. She has extensive experience working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence and was director of the Community Liaison Project at Sanctuary for Families' Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services in New York. Following graduation from Columbia University School of Law, Koh clerked for the late Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson of the Eastern District of New York.

Publications

• Co-author of “Recognizing the Interdependence of Rights in the Antidiscrimination Context Through the World Conference Against Racism” in 34 Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2002)
• "Jing Fong Restaurant: Unfair Labor Practices in New York City's Chinatown" in 7 Asian American Policy Review (1997)

Field of Interest/Expertise

• Immigration Law, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence and the Law, Family Law, Human Rights, Race and the Law, Clinical Education

Courses & Programs

Programs

• Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow