Rakesh K. Anand
Associate Professor of Law
College of Law
Syracuse University
Biography:
A.B., Stanford University
J.D., Yale Law School
Professor Anand graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (with honors and distinction) and from Yale Law School in 1994 with a Juris Doctor. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel, and from 1995-2001, he was a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. Before coming to Syracuse University, Professor Anand was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, during which time he taught classes in legal ethics and criminal law, and received the 2003-04 Faculty Member of the Year award. Professor Anand’s scholarly interests focus on legal ethics and the legal profession.
Publications:
The Role of the Lawyer in the American Democracy, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 1611 (2009) (symposium on "The Lawyer's Role in a Contemporary Democracy")
Legal Ethics, Jurisprudence, and the Cultural Study of the Lawyer, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 737 (2008)
· Alternate, 2008 AALS Section on New Law Professors' Call for Papers (blind submission) (peer review)
Toward an Interpretive Theory of Legal Ethics, 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 653 (2006)
Contemporary Civil Litigation and the Problem of Professional Meaning: A Jurisprudential Inquiry, 13 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 75 (1999).