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Delaram Takyar is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, University of Colorado Boulder. Her scholarship examines how legal structures perpetuate social inequality and marginalization of disadvantaged groups, with focus on civil rights and systemic barriers.
Her educational background includes:
- Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School, where she served as student co-director of the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project and articles editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review.
- Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University, with a dissertation on intergenerational economic mobility in the United States.
- AB in Social Studies, with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, from Harvard College.
Professor Takyar's research investigates how government immunity doctrines disproportionately harm marginalized communities through legal marginalization. Her work bridges civil rights, poverty law, and health law via medical-legal partnerships addressing legal needs of vulnerable populations, while examining economic mobility and racial justice within legal systems.
Her scholarship critically analyzes government immunity's disparate impact on disadvantaged groups, exemplifying her research agenda connecting legal doctrine with social justice outcomes in civil rights and public law.
Professor Takyar has received notable recognition including:
- Skadden Fellowship
Her grant-funded work established a medical-legal partnership providing free legal services to pregnant and postpartum patients at a federally qualified health center, alongside developing self-help materials for pro se litigants in civil courts to expand access to justice.
She founded a medical-legal partnership model integrating legal and healthcare professionals to address social determinants of health through legal interventions for vulnerable populations.
