Fatma Marouf

Professor Marouf joined the Boyd School of Law in 2010. During law school, she was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She also served as an Equal Justice Fellow and a Chayes International Public Service Fellow.

After graduation, Professor Marouf worked for two years as a Staff Attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, representing low-income individuals in the areas of housing and redevelopment rights, public benefits and education rights. She then clerked for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. From 2005 to 2010, Professor Marouf practiced exclusively immigration law, handling all types of cases, including asylum, deportation defense, family, and business immigration. She has significant appellate experience representing clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit. Her research focuses on economic and social rights, as well as the intersection between international human rights law and refugee law.

At UNLV, Professor Marouf teaches international human rights and immigration law. She also directs the Immigration Clinic.