Biography

A respected voice on immigration law and civil rights, Jayashri Srikantiah is the director of the law school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, in which students represent individual immigrants and immigrants’ rights organizations and also engage in community outreach, public education, and policy advocacy. She has litigated extensively on behalf of immigrants, and her experience includes challenges to mandatory and indefinite detention policies in the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court and representation of human trafficking survivors. 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 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

• Law Clinic Argues Immigrant Rights
  The Stanford Daily, February 04, 2008
• 9th Circuit Hears Cases On Detention
  Daily Journal, January 08, 2008

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