Anjali Mohan

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About Anjali Mohan

Anjali Mohan is a political and legal theorist. Her dissertation, Structures of Injustice: Reframing Responsibility for Transnational Harms, interrogates existing frameworks for moral, political, and legal responsibility and imagines new ways of responding to large-scale harms. Her articles “Reframing Genocide” and “Statelessness and World Citizenship” are forthcoming in the Utah Law Review and the Oxford Handbook on Cosmopolitanism, respectively. Prior to her studies at University of Chicago, Anjali spent four years working on human rights in Burma/Myanmar as Country Director of the NGO Justice Base and international legal advisor to Women’s Peace Network, a Rohingya-led advocacy organization. A member of the New York and District of Columbia bars, she started her career at WilmerHale in Washington, DC as a litigation associate. Anjali received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA in Government, Economics, and Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin. Anjali will graduate with her PhD in Political Science this summer and will join Stanford Law School as a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law in the fall. https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/anjali-mohan