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Biography
Assistant Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales teaches civil procedure, evidence, refugee law and policy, and transitional justice. She received a BA with highest honors from the University of California at Berkeley and a JD, in 1999, from Yale Law School. She also holds an LLM with distinction from the Georgetown University Law Center. From 2004 to 2006, Prof. Ramji-Nogales taught at Georgetown as a clinical fellow in the Center for Applied Legal Studies, where she supervised students representing asylum seekers, and as an adjunct professor of Refugee Law and Policy.
Following law school, Prof. Ramji-Nogales was awarded the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights to create a refugee law clinic at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2001, Prof. Ramji-Nogales joined the international law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, where she focused on international arbitration, and pursued pro bono projects in the areas of international and domestic refugee law and international human rights law. In 2002, she joined the American Civil Liberties Union in New York as a staff attorney.
Prof. Ramji-Nogales' primary research interests concern procedural due process and the intersection of immigration and international human rights law. She has also been published in the area of transitional justice, most recently co-editing a book on accountability for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
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