Role: Visiting Professor, Global Studies Institute, Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

  Contact: stabak@gsu.edu

  Research Interests:
Asylum and Refugee Law | Human Rights | LGBTI Issues | Reproductive Justice

Shana Tabak specializes in Human Rights, Immigration and Refugee Law, International Law, and Gender.  Her research explores transitional justice, gender and conflict, migrant detention, and reproductive justice.  Tabak is a Visiting Professor at Georgia State University’s Global Studies Institute and Georgia State University College of Law. Previously, she directed human rights and immigration litigation at the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law, and at George Washington University Law School. She served as a law clerk for H.E. Bernardo Sepulveda Amor at the International Court of Justice at The Hague in the Netherlands. Through clinical work and consultancies, Tabak maintains an active practice in immigration and human rights law, representing clients in immigration proceedings and in human rights tribunals.