Biography

An experienced clinical teacher and lawyer, Jayashri Srikantiah is the founder and director of the law school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. She and students in the clinic have represented scores of immigrant survivors of domestic violence and immigrants facing removal because of past criminal convictions. Professor Srikantiah and clinic students have also conducted multi-modal advocacy—including impact litigation, community outreach, public education, and policy advocacy—on behalf of a broad range of immigration non-profits, on issues ranging from immigration detention to protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence. The clinic has litigated cases in the immigration courts, the federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Clinic students and Professor Srikantiah are currently conducting litigation challenging the federal government’s practice of subjecting immigrants to prolonged detention pending deportation proceedings, as well as litigation seeking to uncover the federal government’s practice of deporting certain immigrants without hearings.

Professor Srikantiah’s research and scholarly work explores the role of administrative discretion in immigration decision making in various areas, including human trafficking and immigration detention; and the pedagogy of multi-modal law clinics. Her current research concentrates on developing teaching methods for clinics representing institutional clients; the early history of immigration detention; and the sufficiency of streamlined deportation procedures. Professor Srikantiah is also 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. 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 & Jennifer Lee Koh, Teaching Individual Representation Alongside Institutional Advocacy: Pedagogical Implications of a Combined Advocacy Clinic, 16 Clinical Law Review 451 (Spring 2010).
• 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).

Courses & Programs

Courses

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

Programs

• Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Director

Publications & Cases

• Jennifer Lee Koh, Jayashri Srikantiah, Karen C. Tumlin, Deportation Without Due Process: The U.S. Has Used Its "Stipulated Removal" Program to Deport More than 160,000 Noncitizens Without Hearings Before Immigration Judges, Fullerton, Calif.: Western State University College of Law; Stanford, Calif.: Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford Law School; Los Angeles, Calif.: National Immigration Law Center, 2011.
• Jayashri Srikantiah & Jennifer Lee Koh, Teaching Individual Representation Alongside Institutional Advocacy: Pedagogical Implications of a Combined Advocacy Clinic, 16 Clinical Law Review 451 (Spring 2010).
• 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