Ambika Mehta joined the International Justice Resource Center as a law fellow in May 2015. She received her B.A. in Government and German from Colby College. Ambika received her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law in July 2013.
While at UC Davis, Ambika was a student advocate in the Immigration Clinic where she represented clients in removal proceedings and wrote legal memoranda about immigrant detainees in solitary confinement. As a DAAD Summer Legal Fellow at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in Frankfurt, her projects focused on Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. During her last year in law school, she also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy (JILP).
Prior to law school, Ambika focused on immigration and integration issues as a Fulbright Scholar to Berlin, Germany, an analyst at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and an intern with the International Organization for Migration’s Office of Permanent Observer to the United Nations. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, yoga, and hiking.