Shayak Sarkar

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Professor

  • School of Law

Shayak Sarkar is an economist and lawyer.  Prior to law teaching, he worked as an employment attorney and helped immigrant workers vindicate their rights through both individual casework and broader legal reforms.  He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was active in the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.  Before law school he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he earned masters degrees, with distinction, in social work and development economics.  He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.

Shayak Sarkar's content

Including immigrants in the U.S. tax system is fiscally responsible and can boost economic growth by lifting the well-being of their families
Shayak Sarkar pens an Op-Ed for the San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Shayak Sarkar and Professor Gabriel (Jack) Chin to speak about immigration in the School of Law Summer Faculty Workshops
Summer faculty workshops start on July 18.
Financial Immigration Enforcement
This research explores the implications for immigration (enforcement) created by this patchwork of financial laws.
UC Davis Law Review Symposium
This Symposium examines the different forms of resistance employed by various groups, the legal challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned.