Anita Maddali
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Interim Director, Center for Externships
Biography
Anita Maddali is a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Interim Director for the Center for Externships at the Bluhm Legal Clinic. She brings almost two decades of experience teaching doctrinal and clinical courses, as well as developing clinical and externship programs that prepare students for legal practice. At Northwestern, Professor Maddali teaches practicum seminars focused on the federal judiciary and public interest law. Prior to joining Northwestern, she served in various capacities within law schools, including as an Associate Professor of Law with tenure. Her research and teaching interests include experiential learning, reflective pedagogy, ethics, and immigration law. Professor Maddali began her career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Children and Family Justice Center at the Bluhm Legal Clinic and later worked as a Staff Attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Selected Publications
- Book Review, Rutgers Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books __ (Nov. 2021).
- Forgetting Its Common Humanity: America's Immigration Story, 24 Brown Journal of World Affairs 133 (2018).
- Left Behind: The Dying Principle of Family Reunification Under Immigration Law, 50 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 107 (2016).
- The Immigrant "Other": Racialized Identity and the Devaluation of Immigrant Family Relations, 89 Indiana Law Journal 2 (2014).
- Padilla v. Kentucky: A New Chapter in Supreme Court Jurisprudence on Whether Deportation Constitutes Punishment for Lawful Permanent Residents?, 61 American University Law Review 1 (2011).
Education
- MDiv, University of Chicago
- JD, Northwestern University
- BA, University of Wisconsin - Madison






