PD Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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Meet the Fellows

Shayak Sarkar, 2011

Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Shayak Sarkar is the child of immigrants from India

Fellowship awarded to support work towards a JD in Law at Yale University

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

PhD Economics | Harvard University 2018
JD Law | Yale University 2013
MSc Economics of Development | University of Oxford 2009
MSc Evidence Based Social Work | University of Oxford 2008
BA Applied Mathematics | Harvard University 2007
MA Statistics | Harvard University 2007

Awards

Rhodes Scholar

Work History

UC Davis School of Law, Professor of Law

Shayak Sarkar, 2011

PhD Economics | Harvard University 2018

JD Law | Yale University 2013

MSc Economics of Development | University of Oxford 2009

MSc Evidence Based Social Work | University of Oxford 2008

BA Applied Mathematics | Harvard University 2007

MA Statistics | Harvard University 2007

Rhodes Scholar

UC Davis School of Law, Professor of Law