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Maneka Sinha serves as Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School in Washington DC, with extensive expertise in criminal litigation, forensic evidence, and technology policy. She will serve as Visiting Professor of Clinical Law at NYU Law during fall 2025, teaching the Forensic Defense Clinic.
Her educational background includes a BS from University of California, Berkeley and JD from New York University. Prior to GW Law, she was Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Professor Sinha's research critically examines forensic evidence reliability and policing technologies within criminal legal systems. Her work bridges constitutional law, empirical science, and practical defense strategies, focusing on systemic biases in forensic methodologies and the Fourth Amendment implications of automated surveillance systems. She investigates how algorithmic tools impact probable cause determinations and disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on forensic science reform, with recent scholarship addressing automated gunshot detection systems, signal detection theory limitations, and junk science at sentencing. The research trajectory shows increasing emphasis on technology-driven policing and its constitutional ramifications.
- Excellence in Scholarship award at the 2024 Workshop for AAPI/MENA Women in the Legal Academy for The Automated Fourth Amendment
- Co-recipient of Joel R. Reidenberg Award for Outstanding Scholarship by a Junior Scholar at 2024 Privacy Law Scholars Conference for Challenging Automated Suspicion
- 2023-2024 AALS Bellow Scholar for Fourth Amendment technology research
With ten years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Professor Sinha served as senior advisor on forensic evidence and head of the nationally recognized Forensic Practice Group. Her international work includes 2017 fellowship with International Legal Foundation establishing Nepal's public defender agency and 2015 Brian Roberts Fellowship training Palestinian public defenders in the West Bank. She teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure courses while developing innovative clinical programs in forensic defense.
