Sherally Munshi earned her JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Literature from Columbia University.  Before coming to Georgetown, she was a Perkins / LAPA Fellow at Princeton University. Her areas of scholarly interests include property law, immigration law, and critical legal theory. Her writing has appeared in the Yale Journal of Law &Humanities, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and Harper’s. Prior to teaching, she worked as a legal associate at Willkie Farr &Gallagher, LLP, in New York.  

Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Sherally Munshi, Dispossession: An American Property Law Tradition, 110 Geo. L.J. 1021-1096 (2022). [WWW] [W] [L]
Sherally Munshi, Unsettling the Border, 67 UCLA L. Rev. 1720-1767 (2021).
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Book Chapters & Collected Works

Sherally Munshi, “The Courts of the Conqueror”: Colonialism, the Constitution, and the Time of Redemption, in Law’s Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law 50-95 (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., New York: New York University Press 2021).
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Sherally Munshi, Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban, in Deepening Divides: How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World 118-143 (Didier Fassin ed., London: Pluto Press 2020).
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Sherally Munshi, Immigration and the Imperial, in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities 497-516 (Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar & Bernadette Meyler eds., New York: Oxford University Press 2020).
In The News
June 26, 2019

Associate Professor Sherally Munshi is a co-signer of a June 26, 2019 open letter to Congress on Hitting Reset on Student Loan Dept.

January 9, 2019

Associate Professor Sherally Munshi discussed her forthcoming chapter on immigration at The Center on Law, Equality and Race, Univ. of Calif. Irvine School of Law, January 9, 2019.

October 3, 2018

Professors Hope Babcock, Gregg Bloche, John Copacino, Deborah Epstein, Daniel Ernst, James Feinerman, Anne Fleming, Sheila Foster, Maria Glover, Vida Johnson, Gregory Klass, David Luban, Allegra McLeod, Naomi Mezey, Sherally Munshi, Alicia Plerhoples, Jarrod Reich, Tanina Rostain, Rima Sirota, Abbe Smith, and Kristen Tiscione are among 1700 signatories on a letter, published by The New York Times, delivered to the United States Senate, October 4, 2018, presenting concerns of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's qualifications to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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