Muneer Ahmad is Sol Goldman clinical professor of law at Yale Law School. He codirects the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) and teaches courses related to immigration. In WIRAC, he and his students represent individuals, groups, and organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to immigration, immigrants’ rights, labor, and intersections among them. He has represented immigrants in a range of labor, immigration, and trafficking cases and for three years represented a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay; he has written on these and related topics.
In 2023–24, he served as a senior advisor to the US secretary of labor, where he coordinated work related to immigration and labor and the impact of AI on workers. His scholarship examines the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship in both legal theory and legal practice. Previously, he was professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at American in 2001, he was a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. He clerked for the Hon. William K. Sessions III in the US District Court for the District of Vermont.