Shruti Rana joined the faculty in 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She currently teaches Contracts, LAWR I, and Comparative Commercial Law. She has researched, published, and presented on issues involving corporate accountability, business and technology, administrative law, and international human rights. She has also been extensively involved in policy and advocacy efforts in the areas of gender equity, welfare reform and immigration law.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Professor Rana was a Social Affairs Officer at the United Nations, where she worked for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women during the Committee’s 38th and 39th sessions. Before that, she was in private practice, focusing primarily on commercial and administrative law. She has worked for Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., and Quinn Emanuel LLP and Bingham McCutchen LLP in San Francisco, CA. She also clerked for the Hon. James R. Browning at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Rana graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (with Honors) and the London School of Economics (with Distinction). She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and an AAUW Selected Professions Fellow. She also served as a judicial extern to the Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.