Muneer Ahmad
Muneer Ahmad is a leading civil rights lawyer, educator, and scholar who has dedicated his career to promoting equal access to justice. He is the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, deputy dean for experiential education, and from 2017 to 2021 served as director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School. He co-directs the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) and teaches courses related to immigration. In WIRAC, he and his students represent individuals, groups and organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to immigration, immigrants’ rights, and labor, and intersections among them.
Professor Ahmad has represented immigrants in a range of labor, immigration, and trafficking cases, and for three years represented a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay. His scholarship examines the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship in both legal theory and legal practice. Previously, he was professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at American University in 2001, he was a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. He clerked for the Hon. William K. Sessions III in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.