Angelo Ancheta is a well-published legal scholar focused on the issues surrounding racial discrimination and immigrants’ rights. In addition to teaching, he is the director of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center at Santa Clara Law where he supervises the law school’s civil clinical programs.

Prior to joining the law faculty at Santa Clara, Ancheta was a lecturer at Harvard Law School, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, and taught at UCLA School of Law. Before starting his academic career, Ancheta was a legal services and nonprofit executive director in both Northern and Southern California, specializing in immigration, voting rights, and constitutional law.

• Director of Civil Rights Project, Harvard University (2000-2005)
• Executive Director, Asian Law Caucus (1994-1998)
• Director, Legal & Advocacy Programs

• Constitutional Law
• Civil Rights
• Voting Rights
• Immigration Law