Anil Kalhan is a Professor of Law at Drexel University and a Professor (by courtesy) at the Drexel University Center for Science, Technology, and Society. He also is an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center, and for the 2024-25 academic year, he is a Fellow with the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. He writes and teaches in areas including immigration law, constitutional law, legislation and regulation, privacy and surveillance, and international human rights, and has worked extensively on academic freedom issues in a variety of capacities. His scholarship has examined themes including the growing and transformative use of surveillance technologies for immigration control purposes; judicial independence and judicial politics in the United States, Pakistan, and India; and issues that arise when legal regimes span periods of authoritarian and democratic rule. Since 2020, he has served on Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors, and he also has served as a member of AAUP’s Special Committee on Academic Freedom in Florida, which investigated and published two reports in 2023 examining the politically motivated attacks on academic freedom and shared governance in the state’s public higher education system. He also has served on the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on the Rule of Law and its International Human Rights Committee, which he chaired from 2015 to 2018. An elected member of the American Law Institute and fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he received the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty’s Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award in 2018.