Contracts Prof Weekly Spotlight: Sudha Setty

Sudha Setty (Western New England College School of Law)
B.A., Stanford University
J.D., Columbia University

Sudha Setty recently joined the faculty of Western New England College School of Law, teaching contracts and comparative constitutional law. 

Prior to moving to the Pioneer Valley and starting life as an academic, she was a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York for seven years.  At Davis Polk, Professor Setty worked on a wide range of commercial civil litigation matters, enforcement proceedings before the SEC and NASD, and antitrust matters.  Her pro bono practice while at the firm included prisoner’s rights trial, working on challenges to state constitutional ballot initiatives on voter identification requirements, and mentoring high school students.

Professor Setty was a history major at Stanford University, after which she spent a year in Japan teaching English.  That was followed by law school at Columbia, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and an editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. She has written in the areas of Title IX and women’s rights, and her scholarly focus is on comparative law.  She spends her free time wearing her Red Sox cap and, now that she’s not in New York City, happily not getting ridiculed for it.