Sameer Ashar is Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Workers and Tenants Law and Organizing Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law. He has worked with students and community organizers in defense of migrant workers through law clinics at UC Irvine, UCLA, CUNY, and University of Maryland. Clinic teams have supported numerous immigrant and labor organizations on litigation, policy advocacy, and community education projects, including UNITE HERE Local 11, Rideshare Drivers United, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, United Farm Workers, Restaurant Opportunities Center, and Domestic Workers United. In his writing, Ashar is focused on interactions between law and social movements, political economy, and abolitionist thought, specifically the ways in which law both structures and inhibits emancipatory change.