Sital Kalantry joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 2006 after co-teaching the national security and civil liberties clinic at Yale Law School from 2005-2006. Prior to that she was counsel at prominent national firm where she developed a significant pro bono practice advising international NGOs. She received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a masters from the London School of Economics and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University. She teaches human rights and asylum clinics at Cornell Law School. Her research interests include international law, nonprofit law, and gender and human rights. She speaks Hindi fluently and is conversant in Spanish.