Nirej Sekhon
Associate Professor of Law Center for Access to Justice- Education
J.D., New York University School of Law
A.B., Cornell University
- Specializations
- Biography
Professor Sekhon studies the design and regulation of criminal justice institutions. Writing at the intersection of law, sociology, and political theory, Sekhon’s recent work has focused on municipal policing and how criminal courts and public defenders can play more active roles in shaping police practices. Sekhon’s scholarship explores the nature and function of modern policing with the aim of understanding its relationships to crime, race, and poverty. His most recent articles appear in the Columbia Law Review and the Ohio State Law Journal.
Immediately prior to joining Georgia State University, Sekhon was a Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School. Sekhon’s professional experience included stints in both criminal defense and plaintiffs-side practices. Sekhon served as a judicial clerk to Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Judge Carlos Moreno on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Sekhon is a graduate magna cum laude of New York University School of Law where he was made a member of the Order of the Coif.
- Publications
Articles
Nirej Sekhon, Critical Legal Studies, 43 Cardozo L. Rev. 1187 (2022).
Nirej Sekhon, Representative Defendants, 81 Ohio St. L.J. 19 (2020).
Nirej Sekhon, Police and the Limit of Law, 119 Colum. L. Rev. 1711 (2019).
Nirej Sekhon, Dangerous Warrants, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 967 (2017).
Nirej Sekhon, The Second Amendment in the Street, 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 271 (2018).
Nirej Sekhon, The Chokehold, 57 U. Louisville L. Rev. 43 (2019).
Nirej Sekhon, Blue on Black: An Empirical Assessment of Police Shootings, 54 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 189 (2017).
Nirej Sekhon, Mass Suppression: Aggregation and the Fourth Amendment, 51 Ga. L. Rev. 429 (2017).
Nirej Sekhon, The Pedagogical Prosecutor, 44 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2014).
Nirej Sekhon, Punitive Injunctions, 17 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 175 (2014).
Nirej Sekhon, Complementarity and Post-Coloniality, 27 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 799 (2013).
Nirej Sekhon, Willing Suspects & Docile Defendants: The Contradictory Role of Consent in Criminal Procedure, 46 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 103 (2011).
Nirej S. Sekhon, Redistributive Policing, 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1171 (2011).
Nirej S. Sekhon, Equality and Identity Hierarchy, 3 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 349 (2008).
Nirej Sekhon, Beefeaters, 94 Transition 56 (2003).
Nirej Sekhon, A Father's Crusade: The Medical Murder of Ina Raja, 101 Manushi 13 (1997).
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