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Sudha Setty is the Dean and Professor of Law at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, effective July 2022. She is the first South Asian American to lead a CUNY campus and the first woman of South Asian descent to serve as dean of an ABA-accredited law school. Under her leadership, CUNY Law has revitalized the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human and Civil Rights, launched the First Impressions Youth Legal Collaborative, established the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace, and completed its first strategic plan in a decade. Previously, she served as Dean of Western New England University School of Law (2018–2022), where she founded the Center for Social Justice and integrated antiracism into the curriculum. She earned an A.B. in History (Stanford University) and a J.D. (Columbia Law School).
As a scholar, Setty specializes in national security law and comparative law, authoring National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law (2017). She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and co-founded the Workshop for Asian-American Women in Legal Academia (2021). Her research addresses surveillance, executive secrecy, and civil liberties, with a focus on democratic accountability and constitutional limits on state power.
Recognition includes the 2021 Human Relations Award, 2017 Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award, and election to the American Law Institute (2018). She has testified before the Connecticut General Assembly on Asian Pacific American affairs and contributed to legal reforms on Title IX enforcement and national security transparency.
