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{{Short description|American law professor}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Sital Kalantry
| education = [[Cornell University]] (AB)<br>[[ London School of Economics]] (MSc)<br>[[University of Pennsylvania]] Carey Law School (JD)
| occupation = [[Law professor]]
| years_active = 2021–present
| employer = [[Seattle University School of Law]] (Associate Dean, Professor of Law)<br>[[ Cornell Law School]] (Clinical Professor of Law)<br>[[ University of Chicago Law School]] (Clinical Professor of Law)
| notable_works = Desi Roots & Routes Podcast
| awards = {{bulleted list|South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Award (2021)|Kheel Family Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019)|Fulbright-Nehru Grant (2012)|Award for Outstanding Work for the Advancement of Women at Cornell|University (2010 and 2009)}}
| website = {{url|skalantry.com}}
}}

'''Sital Kalantry''' is an American legal scholar specializing in [[comparative law]] and international human rights.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steeped in two worlds, law professor crusades for women's rights |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/01/steeped-in-two-worlds-law-professor-crusades-for-womens-rights/ |website=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=20 January 2022 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> She is a Professor of Law at [[Seattle University School of Law]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profiles Sital Kalantry |url=https://law.seattleu.edu/faculty/directory/profiles/kalantry-sital.html |website=Seattle University School of Law |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Seattle University School of Law |title=Seattle U Law Welcomes Two New Professors |journal=News Center Articles |issue=99 |year=2021 |url=https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/news_center/99?utm_source=digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu%2Fnews_center%2F99&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages }}</ref> Kalantry is the author of ''Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Indian Supreme Court'' (2022),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Court on Trial |publisher=India Viking |year=2023 |isbn=9780670091584 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Review |url= https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/book-review-court-on-trial-a-slim-read-that-provides-comprehensive-assessment-of-supreme-court-13045182.html |website=Firstpost |date= 27 August 2023 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court: Why India's powerful top court is in a 'crisis' |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66292895 |website=BBC |date= 30 July 2023 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> and ''Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and'' ''India'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Women's Human Rights and Migration |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780812294200 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Apel |first=Marisa Moore |title=Book Review |journal=Human Rights Quarterly |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=818–827 |year=2021 |doi=10.1353/hrq.2021.0051 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Linskey |first=Carol |title=Book Review |journal=Journal of Global South Studies |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=452–454 |year=2018 |doi=10.1353/gss.2018.0037 }}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Kalantry was born in [[India]] and emigrated to the United States at the age of four.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steeped in two worlds, law professor crusades for women's rights |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/01/steeped-in-two-worlds-law-professor-crusades-for-womens-rights/ |website=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=20 January 2022 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> She grew up in [[Queens, New York]], and attended the [[Bronx High School of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steeped in two worlds, law professor crusades for women's rights |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/01/steeped-in-two-worlds-law-professor-crusades-for-womens-rights/ |website=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=20 January 2022 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>

She earned an AB degree from [[Cornell University]], an MSc from the [[London School of Economics]], and a JD from the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Conversation with Prof. Sital Kalantry |url=https://www.barandbench.com/interviews/law-school-interviews/in-conversation-with-prof-sital-kalantry-seattle-university-school-of-law |website=Bar & Bench |date=16 December 2022 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Legal Aid |url=https://cornellalumnimagazine.com/legal-aid/ |website=Cornell Alumni Magazine |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sital Kalantry, Eduardo Penalver |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/style/sital-kalantry-eduardo-penalver.html?searchResultPosition=1 |website=New York Times | date=6 July 1997 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>

==Career==
Kalantry is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Seattle University School of Law.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profiles Sital Kalantry |url=https://law.seattleu.edu/faculty/directory/profiles/kalantry-sital.html |website=Seattle University School of Law |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> Before joining Seattle University, she taught at Cornell Law School for 15 years, where she directed the International Human Rights Clinic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Legal Aid |url=https://cornellalumnimagazine.com/legal-aid/ |website=Cornell Alumni Magazine |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> She has also held visiting faculty positions at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sital Kalantry to Join Faculty |url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/sital-kalantry-join-faculty-bring-international-human-rights-clinic-law-school |website=University of Chicago Law School News |date=20 July 2012 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> and [[Yale Law School]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Yale Law School 2005-2006 |journal=Bulletin of Yale University |volume=101 |issue=8 |page=14 | date=August 2005 |url=https://bulletin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yale-law-school-2005-2006.pdf}}</ref>

In 2012, Kalantry was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar at O.P. Jindal Global University in India, where she conducted research on the [[Supreme Court of India|Indian Supreme Court]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sital Kalantry |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/sital-kalantry |website=Fulbright Scholar Program |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Law School's Kalantry named a Fulbright-Nehru scholar |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/05/law-schools-kalantry-named-fulbright-scholar |website=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>

She has published widely on issues relating to human rights, [[reproductive rights]], and comparative constitutional law. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as the ''[[Cornell Law Review]]'', the ''[[Stanford Journal of International Law]],'' and ''Forum for Health Economics and Policy''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Do Reason-Based Abortion Bans Prevent Eugenics |journal=Cornell Law Review Online |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |year=2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights in International Treaties |journal=Stanford Journal of International Law |volume=44 |pages=63–100 |year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Sex-selective Abortion Bans are Not Associated with Changes in Sex Ratios at Birth in Illinois and Pennsylvania |journal=Forum on Health and Economic Policy |volume=1 |pages=1–24 |year=2014 |issue=1 |doi=10.1515/fhep-2014-0018 |pmid=31419884 }}</ref>

She has also contributed opinion essays to ''[[The New York Times]], [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', and ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How to Fix India's Sex-Selection Problem |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/opinion/how-to-fix-indias-sex-selection-problem.html?smid=tw-share |website=New York Times | date=27 July 2017 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Kalantry |first1=Sital |title=It's a Trick |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/05/its-a-girl-a-pro-life-movie-embraced-by-pro-choice-groups.html |website=Slate |date=6 May 2013 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lessons from India on the issue of Supreme Court justice term limits |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/549263-lessons-from-india-on-the-issue-of-supreme-court-justice-term-limits/ |website=The Hill |date=20 April 2021 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> Kalantry has been involved in founding several academic centers and clinics, including the Roundglass India Center at Seattle University,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roundglass India Center at Seattle University |url= https://www.seattleu.edu/newsroom/2023/roundglass-india-center-at-seattle-university.php |website=SU Newsroom |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SU will convene India conference |url= https://www.seattleu.edu/newsroom/2023/seattle-university-will-convene-india-conference-september-6.php |website=SU Newsroom |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SU's Conference to Pitch Relations Between WA State and India |url= https://indiawest.com/seattle-universitys-conference-to-pitch-relations-between-washington-state-and-india/#google_vignette |website=IndiaWest Journal |date= 25 August 2023 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seattle's bridge to India |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2023/09/seattles-bridge-to-india-insights-from-the-seattle-setu-conference/ |website=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=11 September 2023 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> the Avon Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Law School unveils center for women and justice |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/03/law-school-opens-center-women-and-justice |website=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> and the International Human Rights Clinic at University of Chicago Law School.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sital Kalantry to Join Faculty |url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/sital-kalantry-join-faculty-bring-international-human-rights-clinic-law-school |website=University of Chicago Law School News |date=20 July 2012 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=In Pursuit of Global Justice |url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/pursuit-global-justice |website=UChicago Law News |date=5 April 2019 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref> Earlier in her career, she practiced corporate law at [[Milbank]] and [[O'Melveny & Myers|O’Melveny & Myers]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steeped in two worlds, law professor crusades for women's rights |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/01/steeped-in-two-worlds-law-professor-crusades-for-womens-rights/ |website=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=20 January 2022 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>

==Awards==

* South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Award (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nisha Vyas Receives South Asian Bar Association of North Americas Public Interest Achievement Award |url= https://wclp.org/nisha-vyas-receives-south-asian-bar-association-of-north-americas-public-interest-achievement-award/ |website=Western Center on Law & Poverty |date= 4 June 2021 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Congratulations to the 2021 SABA North America Award Winners! |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4478809612131248&set=pcb.4478824755463067 |website=SABA North America Facebook Page |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>
* Kheel Family Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cornell Law School (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=University, College, & External Awards |url= https://facultydevelopment.cornell.edu/grants-awards/university-college-external-awards/ |website=Cornell University Faculty Development & Diversity |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>
* 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Best Academic Press Title for ''Women's Human Rights and Migration'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Previous Eric Hoffer Book Award Winners |url=https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-previous-winners.html#academic |website=Eric Hoffer Book Award |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref>

==Publications==

===Books===

* ''Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Indian Supreme Court'' (Cambridge University Press, 2022)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Court on Trial |publisher=India Viking |year=2023 |isbn=9780670091584 }}</ref>
* ''Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Women's Human Rights and Migration |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780812294200 }}</ref>
===Selected articles===

* “Sex Selection in the United States and India: A Contextualist Feminist Approach” – UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (2013)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Sex Selection in the United States and India |journal=UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs |volume=18 |page=61 |year=2013 |url= https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/2/7529/files/2017/05/Sex-Selection-in-the-United-States-and-India-A-Contextualist-Fem-1i7pmto.pdf }}</ref>
* “The Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights under International Treaties”– Stanford Journal of International Law (2007)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kalantry |first=Sital |title=Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights in International Treaties |journal=Stanford Journal of International Law |volume=44 |pages=63–100 |year=2008}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Kalantry is married to [[Eduardo Peñalver]], a legal scholar and the president of Seattle University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sital Kalantry, Eduardo Penalver |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/style/sital-kalantry-eduardo-penalver.html?searchResultPosition=1 |website=New York Times | date=6 July 1997 |access-date=22 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Furfaro |first=Hannah |title=Seattle University chooses first Latino president |journal=Seattle Times |volume=October 23, 2020 |pages=A8 |year=2020 |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&t=favorite%3ASTBSSTWE%21Seattle%20Times%20Collection%20with%20historical%20archive&sort=YMD_date%3AD&hide_duplicates=2&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=60&valbase0=eduardo%20penalver&docref=news/17E4A154A6FE1228}}</ref>

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