Associate Professor of Law
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Bijal Shah’s scholarly interests lie in the areas of administrative law, structural constitutional law, immigration law (including "crimmigration"), international human rights law, and LGBT law. Her work appears in publications including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review Online, and the Yale Journal on Regulation. Before entering the academy, Prof. Shah was Associate General Counsel for the Department of Justice / Executive Office for Immigration Review. In this position, she wrote immigration regulations, legislation and national policies on behalf of the General Counsel, the Director’s Office, and Congress. Earlier in her career, she served as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Department of Homeland Security / U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Prof. Shah is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor on the Yale Law Journal and of the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government.