Professor Sania Anwar and Professor Kristie Bluett Join Wake Forest Law

Wake Forest Law is delighted to welcome two new faculty members to our community this fall: Professor Sania Anwar and Professor Kristie Bluett. 

Professor Sania Anwar

Professor Sania R. Anwar is joining Wake Forest Law from Columbia Law School, where she was the inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Academic Fellow and is currently pursuing her doctoral studies. Her research areas include law and philosophy, theoretical foundations of private law, and equality. Her work examines how law reflects, interprets, and constructs conceptions of personhood and norms of accountability within broad networks of individual and institutional interactions, transactions, and affiliations. Serving as an Assistant Professor of Law, she will teach Torts and Private Law.

Professor Anwar is the recipient of Columbia Law School’s E.B. Convers Prize, awarded annually for the best original essay on a legal subject. Her paper, “The First-Person Account of Relationality,” was selected as one of six papers for presentation at the 2025 Equality Law Scholars Forum. Her scholarship on human dignity appears in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights.

Professor Anwar has held leadership roles within the legal academy and profession. She was awarded Columbia University Provost’s Large-Scale Faculty Teaching & Learning Grant and Columbia Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative Grant. She had previously served as Vice President and President-Elect of the South Asian Bar Association of Colorado and as member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Committee on Judicial Nominations, Political Appointments, and Legislative Policy of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado.

Professor Anwar has contributed to transnational initiatives and projects on rights and equality. She founded and served as General Counsel to a New York–based international organization dedicated to addressing limited access to primary education for children—particularly young girls—in geographically remote areas. She was a Teaching Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional & Social Change and served as a Policy Advisor to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a collaboration between artists, legal and policy experts, and law students for introducing and advancing justice-based policies. 

At the University of Colorado Law School where she earned her JD, Professor Anwar received the Legal Aid and Defender Program Award for outstanding performance. She clerked for Judge Sandra I. Rothenberg of the Colorado Court of Appeals. Following her clerkship, she practiced complex trial and appellate litigation involving lawsuits filed across more than a dozen different state and federal jurisdictions.

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Professor Kristie Bluett

Professor Kristie Bluett joins the Wake Forest Law Legal Writing faculty as an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing. An expert in international human rights law, her scholarship specifically focuses on international migration and sex-based discrimination. 

She is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she has been teaching since Fall 2022. Prior to that, she taught in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law from 2014-2017 (first as a Clinical Teaching Fellow and then as Acting Director/Visiting Professor), where she supervised law students in strategic litigation cases, legislative drafting, and human rights reporting for local partners in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her scholarship has been published in the American University International Law Review and Georgetown Journal of International Law Online. She has also written several reports for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, as well as short articles in Just Security and ANZIL Perspective.

Professor Bluett has worked overseas in various capacities related to human rights, asylum law, and the rule of law, including representing asylum-seekers in Greece; working with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg, Germany; working with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in West Africa; and consulting for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She also serves as a volunteer faculty member with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has conducted legal trainings and short courses in various countries, including Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Georgia.

Professor Bluett received her JD, cum laude, with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, and her LLM, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center. She holds a BA, summa cum laude, from The George Washington University, where she was awarded the Wilber J. Carr Prize for demonstrating outstanding ability in the study of international affairs while displaying the qualities necessary to be a dedicated public servant.