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Sital Kalantry
EducationCornell University (AB)
London School of Economics (MSc)
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (JD)
OccupationLaw Professor
Years active2021–present
Employer(s)Seattle University School of Law (Associate Dean, Professor of Law)
Cornell Law School (Clinical Professor of Law)
University of Chicago Law School (Clinical Professor of Law)
Notable workDesi Roots & Routes Podcast
Awards
  • South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Award (2021)
  • Kheel Family Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019)
  • Fulbright-Nehru Grant (2012)
  • Award for Outstanding Work for the Advancement of Women at Cornell
  • University (2010 and 2009)
Websiteskalantry.com

Sital Kalantry is an American legal scholar known for her legal expertise in comparative law and international human rights.[1] She has an extensive publication record with two books and dozens of academic articles and popular opinion pieces. She has won numerous awards and grants for her work.

Early life

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Kalantry was born in India and emigrated to the United States when she was four years old[1]. She grew up in Queens, New York and attended the Bronx High School of Science[1]. Her father retired after 50 years of practice as an accountant and her mother worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield, whose office was in the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks. Her first language was Hindi, and she spent numerous summers in India with her relatives.[1]

Education

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Kalantry obtained an AB degree from Cornell University, MSc from the London School of Economics, and JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.[1]

Career

She is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the Seattle University School of Law. Previously, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School for 15 years. She has taught at the University of Chicago Law School and Yale Law School, and served as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at Global Jindal Law School.[1]

She has published two books, Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Indian Supreme Court and Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India, and dozens of articles. Her work includes academic articles as well as opinion pieces.

She also maintains a human rights practice by supporting cases in international and foreign courts, including the United States Supreme Court, the Indian Supreme Court, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the Constitutional Court of Colombia.

She founded numerous academic centers and clinics, including the Roundglass India Center,[2] Avon Center for Women & Justice,[3] Cornell International Human Rights Clinic, and the University of Chicago International Human Rights Clinic.

Prior to becoming a law professor, she was a corporate lawyer at Milbank and O'Melveny & Myers for 7 years.

Grants

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  • $2.2 million grant from Roundglass Foundation to establish an India Center at Seattle University School of Law (2023)[2]
  • $100,000 grant from Cornell University to Weil Cornell Medical School and Cornell Law School for purposes of faculty collaborations (faculty member on the grant) (2019)
  • Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State and the government of India to conduct empirical research on Indian Supreme Court judgments in New Delhi, India (2012)
  • $1.5 million grant from Avon Foundation for Women to establish and direct the Avon Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School (2009)
  • $10,000 grant from Cornell University faculty innovation in teaching (2008)

Awards

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  • South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Award (2021)
  • Kheel Family Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019)
  • Award for Outstanding Work for the Advancement of Women at Cornell University (2010 and 2009)
  • Selected by Cornell Law Students to receive the Dean Lukingbeal Award in recognition of contributions made to the women students (2009)

Personal life

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Kalantry is married to Eduardo Peñalver, a renowned legal scholar and the president of Seattle University. The couple has been married since 1997, and they have two children.[4]

Representative Publications

Kalantry has authored several books, including Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Indian Supreme Court and Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India and over a dozen articles and book chapters published in major legal and social sciences journals such as the Cornell Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Forum for Health Economics and Policy. Her work has appeared in mainstream media outlets like The New York Times, Slate, and The Hill.

Books

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  • Kalantry, Sital; Chandra, Aparna; Hubbard, William (2023). Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Indian Supreme Court. Penguin Press. ISBN 9780670091584.
  • Kalantry, Sital (2017). Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812249330.

Select publications

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  • "Foreign Law in Dobbs: The Need for a Principled Framework[5]". ConLawNOW (2023).
  • "Transnational Legal Feminist Approaches to the Honour Crimes Provision in the Istanbul Convention[6]". Transnational Legal Theory, with Shireen Moti (2022)
  • "Unintended Consequences of Term Limits of Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons from a Comparative Study of the Indian Supreme Court[7]". Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (2022)
  • "Do Reason-Based Abortion Bans Prevent Eugenics?[8]" Cornell Law Review Online (2021)[7]
  • "Medical and Mental Health Implications of Gestational Surrogacy[9]". American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, with Rachel L. Friedlander, Mary Catherine Holt, Allison Petrini, Joseph Shin, Darrell E. White, and Annie Yau (2021)
  • "Reverse Legal Transplants[10]". North Carolina Law Review (2020)
  • "Transnational Law as a Framework for Law Clinics[11]". Jindal Global Law Review, with Rachael Hancock (2020)
  • "When Contact Kills: Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation During COVID[12]". UCLA Law Review Discourse (2020)
  • "How Stereotypes about Indians are used to Promote Abortion Restrictions in the US?[13]" National Law School of India Review (2020)
  • "Views Adopted by the Committee under Article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, Concerning Communication Nos. 2747/2016 & 2807/2016 (H.R. Comm.)[14]". International Legal Materials (2019)
  • "Transnational Legal Feminisms: Challenges and Opportunities[15]". Cornell International Law Journal (2019)
  • "From Executive Appointment to the Collegium System: The Impact on Diversity in the Indian Supreme Court[16]". Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, with Aparna Chandra and William H.J. Hubbard (2018)
  • "Regulating Markets for Gestational Care: Comparative Perspectives on Surrogacy in the United States and India[17]". Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (2018)
  • "Expanding the Feminist Pathways Perspective beyond the Unites States: A Profile of Federal Women Prisoners in Argentina[18]". Women and Criminal Justice, with Breanna Boppre, Elizabeth Brundige, Silvia Martinez, and Emily J. Salisbury (2018)
  • "The Supreme Court of India: A People's Court?[19]" Indian Law Review, with Aparna Chandra and William H.J. Hubbard (2017)
  • "The French Veil Ban: A Transnational Legal Feminist Approach[20]". University of Baltimore Law Review (2017)
  • "Promoting Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India[21]". NUJS Law Review (2015)
  • "Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Anti-Immigrant or Anti-Abortion?[22]" Georgetown Journal International Affairs (2015)
  • "Sex-selective Abortion Bans are Not Associated with Changes in Sex Ratios at Birth among Asian Populations in Illinois and Pennsylvania[23]". Forum for Health Economics and Policy, with Brian Citro and Arindam Nandi (2014)[8]
  • "Sex-Selection in India and the United States: A Contextualist Feminist Approach[24]." UCLA Journal International Law & Foreign Affairs (2013)
  • "Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being[25]". University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound, with Thoedore Eisenberg and Nick Robinson (2013)
  • "Why do we call ourselves South Asian?", New India Abroad, December 30, 2024 https://www.newindiaabroad.com/english/news/why-do-we-call-ourselves-south-asian
  • "Kamala Harris and the future of Indian Americans in Politics", The Seattle Times, with Karthick Ramakrishnan, July 23, 2024 https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/kamala-harris-and-the-future-of-indian-americans-in-politics/
  • "Why the wait for a green card is endless", Times of India, March 4, 2024 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/why-the-wait-for-a-green-card-is-endless/articleshow/108214409.cms
  • "Outdated green card laws hurt workers from India", The Seattle Times, December 22, 2023 https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/outdated-green-card-laws-hurt-workers-from-india/
  • "Why the U.S. should embrace India", The Seattle Times, September 5, 2023 https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/why-the-u-s-should-embrace-india/

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Meyer, Mahlon. "Steeped in two worlds, law professor crusades for women's rights". Northwest Asian Weekly. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Potterf, Tina. "Roundglass India Center at Seattle University". Seattle University.
  3. ^ Kelley, Susan. "Law School unveils center for women and justice, funded with $1.5 million from Avon foundation". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Sital Kalantry, Eduardo Penalver". The New York Times. 6 July 1997.
  5. ^ https://law.seattleu.edu/media/school-of-law/documents/news-center/archives/2023/foreign-law-in-dobbs-the-need-for-a-principled-framework.pdf
  6. ^ Sital, Kalantry; Shireen, Moti (4 August 2022). "Transnational Legal Feminist Approaches to the Honour Crimes Provision in the Istanbul Convention". SSRN 4500246.
  7. ^ Sital, Kalantry (20 April 2022). "The Unintended Consequences of Term Limits for Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons from a Comparative Study of the Indian Supreme Court". SSRN 4087870.
  8. ^ "Do Reason-Based Abortion Bans Prevent Eugenics? – Cornell Law Review".
  9. ^ Yau, Annie; Friedlander, Rachel L.; Petrini, Allison; Holt, Mary Catherine; White, Darrell E.; Shin, Joseph; Kalantry, Sital; Spandorfer, Steven (2021). "Medical and mental health implications of gestational surrogacy". American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 225 (3): 264–269. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2021.04.213. PMID 33839094.
  10. ^ https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6814&context=nclr
  11. ^ Kalantry, S.; Hancock, R. (2021). "Transnational law as a framework for law clinics". Jindal Global Law Review. 11 (2): 251–270. doi:10.1007/s41020-020-00124-3. PMC 7895739.
  12. ^ Kalantry, Sital; Koeppen, Nicholas (January 2020). "When Contact Kills: Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation During COVID". Cornell Law Faculty Publications.
  13. ^ https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/2/7529/files/2020/10/How-Stereotypes-about-Indians-are-used-to-Promote-Abortion-Restrictions-in-the-US.pdf
  14. ^ Kalantry, Sital (2019). "Views Adopted by the Committee under Article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol, Concerning Communication Nos. 2747/2016 & 2807/2016 (H.R. Comm.)". International Legal Materials. 58: 195–236. doi:10.1017/ILM.2019.7.
  15. ^ https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Kalantry-final-2.pdf
  16. ^ Aparna, Chandra; William, Hubbard; Sital, Kalantry (9 July 2019). "From Executive Appointment to the Collegium System: The Impact on Diversity in the Indian Supreme Court". SSRN 3417259.
  17. ^ https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/JLPP/upload/Kalantry-final.pdf
  18. ^ Salisbury, Emily J.; Kalantry, Sital; Boppre, Breanna; Brundige, Elizabeth; Martínez, Silvia (2018). "Expanding the Feminist Pathways Perspective beyond the United States: A Profile of Federal Women Prisoners in Argentina". Women & Criminal Justice. 28 (2): 125–151. doi:10.1080/08974454.2017.1342745.
  19. ^ Chandra, Aparna; Hubbard, William H. J.; Kalantry, Sital (2017). "The Supreme Court of India: A People's Court?". Indian Law Review. 1 (2): 145–181. doi:10.1080/24730580.2017.1405583.
  20. ^ Kalantry, Sital (April 2017). "The French Veil Ban: A Transnational Legal Feminist Approach". Cornell Law Faculty Publications.
  21. ^ https://nujslawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/01_sital-kalantry.pdf
  22. ^ Kalantry, Sital (2015). "Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Anti-Immigration or Anti-Abortion?". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 16 (1): 140–158. JSTOR 43773676.
  23. ^ Nandi, Arindam; Kalantry, Sital; Citro, Brian (2015). "Sex-selective Abortion Bans are Not Associated with Changes in Sex Ratios at Birth among Asian Populations in Illinois and Pennsylvania". Forum for Health Economics and Policy. 18: 41–64. doi:10.1515/fhep-2014-0018. PMID 31419884.
  24. ^ Sital, Kalantry (5 November 2013). "Sex Selection in the United States and India: A Contextualist Feminist Approach". SSRN 2350467.
  25. ^ Eisenberg, Theodore; Kalantry, Sital; Robinson, Nick (December 2013). "Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being". DePaul Law Review. 62 (2): 247.
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