Areas of Expertise

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Immigration Law
• Public Interest Law

Biography

Eisha Jain is a nationally recognized expert on criminal procedure, immigration enforcement, policing, and collateral consequences. Her commentary regularly appears in major media outlets and in leading law journals. Her work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, among others. In 2025, she was recognized by the graduating class with the McCall Award for outstanding teaching.

She developed and leads the Carolina Law Scholarship Roundtable, which brings innovative scholars to Carolina Law to workshop books and other works-in-progress.

Prior to joining Carolina Law, she worked as a civil rights lawyer, where she focused on police misconduct and wrongful conviction. For her work, she was recognized as a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist. Her past academic appointments include serving as the Louis A. Horvitz Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and as a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Michael Egger Prize for outstanding student writing published in the Yale Law Journal and served as a student director in the Child Advocacy and Immigration Clinic.

Education

• J.D., Yale University (2007)
• B.A., University of Virginia (2003)

Selected Publications

Civil Death by a Thousand Cuts, 2026 WIS. L. REV. 325 (2026) (invited). 

Arrest Unbound, 111 IOWA L. REV. 213 (2025).
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Policing in the Age of Criminal Records, 103 N.C. L. REV. 1441 (2025) (invited symposium contribution). 
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Policing the Polity, 131 YALE L.J. 1794 (2022).
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Jailhouse Immigration Screening, 70 DUKE L.J. 1703 (2021).
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The Interior Structure of Immigration Enforcement, 167 U. PA. L. REV. 1463 (2019).
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Proportionality and Other Misdemeanor Myths, 98 B.U. L. REV. 953 (2018).
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Capitalizing on Criminal Justice, 67 DUKE L.J. 1381 (2018).
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Prosecuting Collateral Consequences, 104 GEO. L.J. 1197 (2016).
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Arrests as Regulation, 67 STAN. L. REV. 809 (2015).
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