Name: Zeinab Khalil

Recipient Year: 2020

Major: Law

Description: Zeinab Khalil is a 2020 ISF Law Scholar and Juris Doctorate Candidate at Columbia University School of Law. She is interested in criminal defense, appellate litigation, and civil rights. Before law school, she worked in advocacy organizations and philanthropic foundations on issues of decarceration, surveillance, and immigration. She spent her 1L summer at the Legal Aid Society’s Special Litigation Unit filing Article 78 petitions on behalf of incarcerated clients; she also worked on a lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s continued use of chokeholds. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from Yale University. She is a staff editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review/Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. She works at the Columbia Law School Writing Center, is a faculty research assistant, and is an extern with the Center for Appellate Litigation. She is also co-president of the Muslim Law Students Association.

School Name: Columbia University School of Law

Sponsor: CAIR-SFBA Scholarship|Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY) Scholarship