J.D., New York University School of Law, 2004
B.A., Yale University, 2001
Anika Singh Lemar is a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School where she teaches clinics that represent affordable housing developers, tenants, homeowners, small businesses, community development financial institutions, fair housing advocates, and cooperatives. Singh Lemar writes about land use, zoning, and housing. She served two terms as editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association’s Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law and has been a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Project. She is currently a member of the board of New Haven Bank and president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Singh Lemar practiced real estate law at a Connecticut law firm. She began her career as a law clerk for the Hon. Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and, later, as a fellow and staff attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center (since renamed TakeRootJustice) in New York.
Singh Lemar received her B.A., cum laude, from Yale University and her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, a Dean’s Scholar, and a Robert McKay Scholar. While in law school, she received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and co-founded Next City.
