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. Lemar writes about land use, zoning, and housing. She is the editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association’s Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Project, and member of the Academic Advisory Committee at the Metropolitan Abundance Project. She has served on many nonprofit boards and governmental commissions and, currently, is a member of the board of New Haven Bank and vice president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
Prior to joining the Law School faculty, 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.
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.
