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Shayak Sarkar

Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship awarded in 2011 to pursue a JD in Law at Yale University.

Shayak Sarkar is the child of immigrants from India.

About Shayak Sarkar

Shayak Sarkar is a professor of law at UC Davis School of Law. He is currently studying immigration law's intersection with financial regulation and taxation. He joined the faculty after clerking for the Hon. Guido Calabresi and representing immigrant domestic workers as an employment lawyer. Prior to earning his law degree from Yale and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where he earned MSc degrees with distinction in evidence-based social work and development economics.

Shayak was born in Morristown, New Jersey to Bengali parents. His family lived in nine cities scattered across five states.

Education

  • BA in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
  • MA in Statistics, Harvard University
  • MSc in Evidence Based Social Work, University of Oxford
  • MSc in Economics of Development, University of Oxford
  • JD in Law, Yale University
  • PhD in Economics, Harvard University

Professional Fields

Work History

  • Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Milestones and Recognition

  • Rhodes Scholar

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