Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes

Biography

Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes teaches Immigration Law and is the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Clinic. Her scholarship takes a critical look at immigration law and policy, including at the intersections of asylum law, detention and deportation, and immigrant surveillance, enforcement and abolition. Her recent law review articles have been published in the Denver Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Villanova Law Review and the Indiana Law Review. She regularly speaks and appears in the media on issues including asylum, detention and deportation. She has published op-eds in The Washington Post, USA Today, Cognoscenti, Bloomberg Law and The Hill.

In 2021, Professor Sherman-Stokes was part of a team of lawyers and law school clinics awarded the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) award for Excellence in a Public Interest Project, for their work in a federal class action on behalf of 12 women subjected to non-consensual medical procedures in ICE custody at the Irwin County Detention Center. In 2020, Professor Sherman-Stokes was awarded the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor awarded by Boston University.

Professor Sherman-Stokes received her B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College and her J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School. Previously, she was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project where she represented noncitizens in removal proceedings, with a special focus on the representation of detained immigrants with mental illness.