Muneer Ahmad will receive the Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award at the CBA’s annual awards ceremony, Celebrate with the Stars, on Thursday, March 12.
Professor Ahmad is the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he co-teaches in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC). Through WIRAC, Professor Ahmad and his students represent individuals, groups, and organizations in litigation and non-litigation matters involving immigration, immigrant rights, labor, and the intersections among them. His clinical work has included representing immigrants in labor, immigration, and trafficking matters, as well as the representation of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for three years.
Professor Ahmad also previously led the Transnational Development Clinic, in which he and his students developed strategies for U.S.-based lawyers to engage effectively in global poverty work. Their projects addressed issues such as the rights of street vendors in India, barriers to remittances faced by immigrant communities, access to essential medicines, institutional accountability for international financial entities, and advocacy for workers displaced by trade policy changes. In 2023-2024, he served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, where he helped to coordinate work related to immigration and labor and the impact of AI on workers. His scholarly writing explores the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship in both legal theory and practice.
Before joining Yale Law School, Professor Ahmad was a member of the faculty at American University Washington College of Law. Prior to joining American University, he served as a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles, where he worked on immigrant and civil rights issues. He also clerked for the Honorable William K. Sessions III of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.
The Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award is presented to a distinguished CBA member who is a member of the faculty, a clinical instructor, or an adjunct instructor at UConn Law School, Quinnipiac Law School, Yale Law School, or Western New England Law School who has contributed greatly to the legal education of his or her colleagues.
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