India Winter Program Faculty

International & Comparative
Human Rights Law Practicum

Faculty

The course will be co-taught by Professors Martin Geer, Fatma Marouf, Krishna Deva Rao and M.R. K. Prasad. They each have extensive experience teaching in the area of international and comparative human rights and experiential legal education.  

		Professor Fatma Marouf William S. Boyd School of Law Professor Marouf will be on leave for the winter 2012-13 program. Other faculty will be added.
Professor Marouf earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After graduation, she worked for two years as a Staff Attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance. She then clerked for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. From 2005-10, Professor Marouf practiced exclusively immigration law, handling all types of cases including asylum, deportation defense, family and business immigration. Her research focuses on economic and social rights, as well as the intersection between human rights and refugee law. Professor Marouf co-directs the immigration clinic at UNLV, which handles a wide variety of cases, including asylum, deportation defense, and human trafficking.  She taught classes in India related to trafficking and refugees during winter 2010 and is also researching trafficking issues in Nepal.
		Professor (Dr.) Srikrishna Deva Rao  National Law University (NLU)
Professor Rao is currently a Professor and Director at the National Law University in New Delhi. He worked with three national law schools in India; Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, in addition to a short stint at Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi. Professor Rao is founding faculty of National Law School Hyderabad and Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar and contributed to the development of academic and research programs. He served as the Director, School of Law Indira Gandhi National Open University. He was a consultant to Indian Medical Association (IMA), Swedish Development Cooperation (SDC), Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT), Child Rights and You (CRY), and Swedish National Science Foundation (SNSF).
		Professor (Dr.) M.R.K. Prasad  V.M. Salgaocar College of Law
Professor Prasad is the Head of the Department of Law at V.M. Salgaocar College of Law and a senior lecturer with 15 years of teaching experience. He joined this institution in 1996, prior to which he served as a lecturer in law for three years in the State of Andhra Pradesh. Over the course of his career with this institution, he has been the Chairman of Moot Court Society and the Legal Aid Society. He is the first recipient of Vanderbilt - Fulbright Fellowship in clinical legal education from India. He is very active in the clinical legal education movement in India. He is an active member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education and the Secretary of the Forum of South Asian Clinical Law Teachers. Being the Secretary, he has conducted five Regional ‘Training the Trainers’ Programmes in India for training law teachers in clinical legal education. He is also a Member of the National Coordination Committee to conduct the Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling Competition. He has presented papers at international and national seminars. Presently, he is involved with the Law Students Forum and the ADR Board. He has published significantly in the areas of clinical education and access to justice.