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. Her teaching and research interests include Clinical Teaching and Immigration. Prior to joining Northwestern, Anita served in various capacities within law schools, including as an Associate Professor of Law with tenure, Dean of Students, and Director of Clinics. Anita began her career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Children and Family Justice Center and later worked as a Staff Attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Anita’s research on Immigration Law has been published in the Indiana Law Journal, Michigan Journal of Law Reform and the American University Law Review among others.
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Teaching
- Immigration Law
- Law and Religion
Selected Publications
- Book Review, Rutgers Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books (Nov. 2021) (reviewing J.C. Salyer, COURT of INJUSTICE: LAW WITHOUT RECOGNITION in U.S. IMMIGRATION (2020).
- 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