Shirin Sinnar joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2012. Her scholarship focuses on the role of institutions, including courts and executive branch agencies, in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context. She has written on the capacity of Ins...
Shirin Sinnar joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2012. Her scholarship focuses on the role of institutions, including courts and executive branch agencies, in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context. She has written on the capacity of Inspectors General, civil rights offices, and other institutions within federal agencies to monitor and oversee national security conduct. Her scholarship also addresses the procedural dimensions of civil rights and national security litigation, domestic intelligence-gathering and profiling, and the impact of counterterrorism policies on U.S. minority and immigrant communities. Her articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and other journals.