Biography:

Sudha Setty is an Associate Professor of Law at Western New England College School of Law, in Springfield, MA. She teaches Comparative Constitutional Law, Law and Terrorism, Civil Rights and Contracts, and was awarded the Catherine J. Jones Professor of Year Award in 2009. Her research is in the area of comparative constitutional law and policy, and her scholarly work has focused on the comparative analysis of issues related to separation of powers and national security. Her most recent scholarship includes Litigating Secrets: Comparative Perspectives on the State Secrets Privilege (forthcoming Brooklyn Law Review); No More Secret Laws: How Transparency of Executive Branch Legal Policy Doesn’t Let the Terrorists Win, 57 Kansas Law Review (2009); and The President’s Question Time: Power, Information and the Executive Credibility Gap, 17 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (2008).

Prior to joining the faculty of Western New England College School of Law in 2006, Professor Setty was a litigator with the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Professor Setty graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia Law School and received her A.B. in History (concentration in comparative civil rights movements) with honors from Stanford University.

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