Preeta Bansal
Preeta D. Bansal is an American lawyer and public servant. Appointed Solicitor General of New York in 1999, she became the first Indian American to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. As New York’s chief appellate lawyer, she handled major constitutional and public policy cases, helping establish Indian American representation at the highest […]
Akhil Reed Amar
Akhil Reed Amar is an American constitutional scholar and Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Over the past three decades, he has produced one of the most widely cited bodies of constitutional scholarship in the United States. His historical and structural analyses have been cited by Supreme Court justices across the ideological spectrum, […]
Anand Chakrabarty
Anand Chakrabarty was an Indian American microbiologist and genetic engineer who worked at General Electric. He genetically engineered a bacterium capable of breaking down crude oil, an innovation that led to the landmark Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980). The Court’s ruling established that genetically modified living organisms could be patented under U.S. law, […]
Ved Nanda
Ved Nanda was an Indian American legal scholar and human rights advocate. After immigrating to the United States in the 1960s, he joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he built one of the nation’s leading international human rights law programs. In 1971, he founded the Denver Journal of International Law and […]