Joel Sati

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PhD/JD, University of California, Berkeley and Yale University
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Currently, Sati is finishing his PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy after receiving his JD from Yale Law School, where he was the Symposium Editor for the Yale Journal for Law and the Humanities. Sati’s dissertation project, titled A Punishment of the Severest Kind: Deportations, Rights, and the Rise of a New Criminal Law, examines the intersection of criminal law and immigration law through a philosophical lens. He is a 2019 recipient of the Thomas I. Yamashita FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE Prize, an award given to a scholar-activist in California whose work bridges the gap between the academy and activism.