Anette Sikka - Attorney/Of Counsel
Dr. Anette Sikka teaches primarily in the fields of Immigration, Constitutional and International law, including Human Rights, International Criminal and International Armed Conflict. She also teaches Law and Inequality, using Critical Race and Gender approaches to constitutional questions of equal protection. She completed her J.D. at Dalhousie University in Canada in 2001 and her LLM/LLD from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Her current research focuses on immigration reform and criminal justice, comparative constitutional law approaches to equality and international rule of law programming. She works with students on a number of immigration-related projects, including community-based research, campus and civic events, a week-long trip to Dilley Detention Center in Texas to provide legal representation to detained mothers and children. She also helped establish and served as the first Vice Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Immigration.
Dr. Sikka worked for the United Nations in Bosnia and Kosovo for several years in the post-conflict period of the Balkan wars, training police, judges and social service personnel on gender and operational policy. Since 2007 she has been working as an international consultant providing research and training on police operational policy, gender, and migration in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the U.S. Prior to arriving at the UIS Legal Studies Department Dr. Sikka taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and the University of Alabama Law School. She is licensed in the state of Alabama and continues to serve of counsel at an immigration law firm in Birmingham, where she primarily serves clients in removal proceedings seeking asylum.
Dr. Sikka worked for the United Nations in Bosnia and Kosovo for several years in the post-conflict period of the Balkan wars, training police, judges and social service personnel on gender and operational policy. Since 2007 she has been working as an international consultant providing research and training on police operational policy, gender, and migration in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the U.S. Prior to arriving at the UIS Legal Studies Department Dr. Sikka taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and the University of Alabama Law School. She is licensed in the state of Alabama and continues to serve of counsel at an immigration law firm in Birmingham, where she primarily serves clients in removal proceedings seeking asylum.