Biography

Shirin Sinnar joined the law school as a Stanford Law Fellow in 2009. She previously served as a public interest attorney with the Asian Law Caucus and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, where she represented individuals facing discrimination based on government national security policies and unlawful employment practices. Sinnar served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. 2003), Cambridge University (M. Phil. International Relations 1999), and Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (A.B. History 1998). Sinnar serves on the steering committee of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education.

Research Interests

Civil rights law, national security law, administrative law, civil procedure, constitutional law, employment discrimination, international law.

Publications & Cases

• Shirin Sinnar, Questioning Law Enforcement: The First Amendment and Counterterrorism Interviews, 77 Brooklyn Law Review 41 (2011).
• Shirin Sinnar, Returning Home: How U.S. Government Practices Undermine Civil Rights at Our Nation’s Doorstep, Asian Law Caucus/Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic report (2009).
• Shirin Sinnar, The OFAC List: How a Treasury Department Terrorist Watchlist Ensnares Everyday Consumers, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area report (2007).
• Shirin Sinnar, Note, Patriotic or Unconstitutional? The Mandatory Detention of Aliens under the USA Patriot Act, 55 Stanford Law Review 1419 (2003).
• Shirin Sinnar, Book Note, 38 Stanford Journal of International Law 319 (2002) (reviewing Craig Scott, Ed., Torture as Tort (2001)).