Before joining Keker & Van Nest in the fall of 2011, Ms. Brahmbhatt earned her J.D. at the UC Berkeley School of Law, and her M.A. at UC San Diego. While at Berkeley, she helped clients at the East Bay Community Law Center and California Asylum Representation Clinic. She was also a research assistant, and graduate student instructor for the Constitutional Law course.
While earning her master’s degree at UC San Diego, she was an instructor for the Law and Civil Rights course in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Prior to this, she was a fellow with the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, through which she studied post-colonial racial politics and gender inequity in Trinidad, Guyana, Mauritius and Fiji.
Ms. Brahmbhatt speaks Spanish and Gujarati.
Honors and Awards
UC Berkeley School of Law
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Order of the Coif
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American Jurisprudence Award: Federal Courts, Immigration Law, Federal Indian Law, and Global Migration Issues
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Prosser Prize in Constitutional Law & Contracts
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Advocacy Award in Written and Oral Advocacy (Moot Court)
UC San Diego
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Dean's Social Science Advisory Council Fellowship
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Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship