Bio

Asees Bhasin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Donald Gaines Murray Fellow. She teaches in the first-year Lawyering Program. Her research focuses on Critical Evidence Law, Race and the Law, Reproductive Justice, and the intersections between these fields. She is particularly curious about how seemingly neutral rules of procedure contribute to the marginalization of people and communities along race and gender lines.

Previously, Professor Bhasin worked at Boston University, where her research focused on the rules of evidence, and the use of expert witnesses to prove racism in criminal trials. Before that, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale University where she researched and wrote on health law and racism. She began her legal career as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C. where her advocacy was centered on reproductive rights, and maternal and infant health.

Professor Bhasin’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Indiana Health Law Review, the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She received a joint J.D.-LL.B. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and King’s College London. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India.