Jyoti Nanda

Jyoti Nanda is a Professor of Law at Golden Gate University (GGU) School of Law, specializing in criminal and juvenile law.123 She is a national expert on youth justice, focusing on how legal actors, institutions, and doctrines have impacted the expansion of the carceral state.1 Nanda's research interests include the intersections of criminal law and social hierarchies, particularly those influenced by race, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and immigration.1

Nanda has published articles in prestigious law journals and is a co-editor of the leading textbook on youth law, "Children and the Law" (8th ed.).1 She has received numerous awards for her scholarship and advocacy, including the Justice Jesse W. Carter Faculty Scholarship Award in 2022.1

Before joining GGU in 2019, Nanda taught for 16 years at UCLA School of Law.1 She has also taught as a visiting professor at UC Law, San Francisco, UC Davis School of Law, and USC Gould School of Law.1 In 2023, she was named a Salzburg Global Fellow.15

Nanda's courses at GGU include Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, Evidence, and Juvenile Law.4 She is actively involved in various projects, including serving as the American Bar Association's reporter for the forthcoming ABA Youth Justice National Standards and as the principal investigator with the Vera Institute and the African American Policy Forum on the Girls/Gender Non-Confirming Youth Research Project.1