Biography

A respected voice on immigration law and civil rights, Jayashri Srikantiah is the founder and director of the law school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, in which students represent individual immigrants and immigrants’ rights organizations and also engage in impact litigation, community outreach, public education, and policy advocacy. Professor Srikantiah’s research explores the role of administrative discretion in immigration decision-making in various areas, including human trafficking and immigration detention. She has also presented on the benefits of teaching law school clinics that integrate direct services work with broader legal advocacy projects. Professor Srikantiah is a frequent speaker on various immigration topics, including comprehensive immigration reform, immigration and national security, and immigration detention.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2004, Professor Srikantiah was the associate legal director of the ACLU of Northern California and a staff attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. She litigated extensively on behalf of immigrants, and her experience includes challenging the use of government watchlists; litigating against mandatory and indefinite detention policies in the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court; and representation of human trafficking survivors. Professor Srikantiah has also worked as an associate at the law firm of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, and was a law clerk to Judge David R. Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Key Works

• Jayashri Srikantiah, Perfect Victims and Real Survivors: The Iconic Victim in Domestic Human Trafficking Law, 87 Boston University Law Review 157 (February 2007).
• Jayashri Srikantiah, Introduction (Symposium Globalization, Security & Human Rights: Immigration in the Twenty-First Century) , 16 Stanford Law & Policy Review 317 (2005).

In the News

• ICE Officials Move To Deport Scottish Vietnam Vet
  FoxReno.com, October 08, 2009
• Federal Court Rules Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Prolonged Detention Of Immigrants Can Go Forward
  eNews Park Forest, August 20, 2009

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Immigrants' Rights Clinic
• Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Advanced

Programs

• Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Director

Publications & Cases

• Jayashri Srikantiah, Perfect Victims and Real Survivors: The Iconic Victim in Domestic Human Trafficking Law, 87 Boston University Law Review 157 (February 2007).
• Jayashri Srikantiah, Border Enforcement and National Security, Stanford Lawyer, Fall 2006.
• Jayashri Srikantiah, Introduction (Symposium Globalization, Security & Human Rights: Immigration in the Twenty-First Century) , 16 Stanford Law & Policy Review 317 (2005).
• Jayashri Srikantiah. Few Benefits to Questioning Targeted Groups, San Francisco Chronicle, August 6, 2004, p. B9.
• Jayashri Srikantiah. Airline Bias Victims Face Brick Wall in Seeking Evidence, San Francisco Daily Journal, February 10, 2004.

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Board Member, Equal Rights Advocates

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, South Asian Bar Association and Minority Bar Coalition Award for Outstanding Service to the Legal Community, 2000
• Recipient, Asian Law Alliance Community Impact Award, 2002