SCHOOL OF LAW

Ranjana Natarajan

Clinical Professor
Director

JD Columbia University
BA University of Texas at Austin

Ranjana Natarajan joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law in 2009, and she directs the National Security Clinic. Prior to this, Ms. Natarajan was a Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, where her practice focused on national security and immigrant rights. Prior to that, she held a Clinical Fellowship with the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law, where she litigated workers' rights and immigration cases in federal and administrative courts. Prior to that, she was a Kirkland and Ellis Fellow and staff attorney with South Brooklyn Legal Services, focusing on housing and disability rights issues. Her teaching, litigation, and research interests include national security detention and counter-terrorism surveillance and criminal enforcement. Ms. Natarajan received a Lawyer of the Year Award from California Lawyer Magazine in 2007 for her work on behalf of an asylum-seeker detained for six years on national security grounds by immigration authorities. She has received numerous honors from community-based organizations in Southern California for her work representing persons targeted by counter-terrorism investigations. From 2006 to 2008, Ms. Natarajan served on the Board of Directors of the South Asian Network, a a grassroots, community based organization dedicated to advancing the health, empowerment and solidarity of persons of South Asian origin in Southern California.