Sarah Hamilton-Jiang

Legal Research Consultant

Sarah Hamilton-Jiang is an independent Legal Research Consultant. She previously served as a Research Scholar at the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. Her commitment to a transnational, multidisciplinary approach to racial injustice and inequality has formed the basis of her work in minority and gender rights, immigration and refugee law, and the intersection of human rights law and peacebuilding. Before coming to NYU Law, Sarah spent eight years working with marginalized communities managing projects on human rights law, peacebuilding, and immigration in the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand and countries in Africa and Asia. In addition, she provided legal advice at community law centers and completed a mini-pupilage at Number 8 Barrister’s Chambers. Since relocating to the United States in 2016, Sarah has led Amnesty International USA’s national campaign on police brutality in Jamaica. Sarah’s research includes her contribution to Richard Wilson’s book "Incitement On Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes," racialized hate speech in the United States, a co-published article "Freedom, Responsibility, and the Human Right to Science" for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and her recent law review article "Children of a Lesser God: Reconceptualizing Race in Immigration Law" published in the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, she holds an LL.B. Law degree from the University of Sheffield, an International Comparative Law Certificate from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and an LL.M. in Human Rights and Social Justice from the University of Connecticut’s School of Law.