Asees Bhasin

Asees Bhasin, Associate Professor of Law

• Criminal Law
• Public Health Law 

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Education

• BA, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University
• LLB, King's College London
• JD, Georgetown University Law Center

Background

Asees Bhasin joined the LMU Loyola Law School faculty in 2026. Her research focuses on critical evidence law, race and the law, reproductive justice, public health, and the intersections between these fields. She is particularly curious about how seemingly neutral rules of procedure contribute to the marginalization of people and communities along race and gender lines. She has conducted multiple criminal defender trainings, including for the National Association of Public Defenders and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, that have focused on how to introduce antiracist expert evidence and exclude irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial evidence. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Yale Law Journal, the Indiana Health Law Review, the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She has authored multiple book chapters that are forthcoming or have been published by Cambridge University Press and the University of California Press. 

Before joining Loyola, Professor Bhasin was a visiting assistant professor of law and Donald Gaines Murray Fellow at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and taught Lawyering. She previously worked at Boston University and at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale University. She began her legal career as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C. She received a joint J.D.-LL.B. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and King’s College London. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India.

Selected Publications

• "Bias and the 'Low Bar' of Relevance", 114 California Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
  • Review: G. Alexander Nunn, "Asees Bhasin on Bias and the 'Low Bar' of Relevance," in Nunn on Evidence (Sept. 18, 2025)
• "Antiracist Expert Evidence," co-authored with Jasmine Gonzales Rose and Spencer Piston, 134 Yale Law Journal 2249 (2025)
  • Featured on the "Excited Utterance Podcast," hosted by Edward Cheng and Alex Nunn
  • Review: Edward J. Imwinkelried, "Strengthening the Case for the Admission of Antiracist Evidence," in The Champion (2025)
• "Gutting Grutter: The Impact of Curbing Affirmative Action on the Medical Profession," co-authored with Dr. Gregory Curfman, 20 Indiana Health Law Review 1 (2023)
• "The Telehealth 'Revolution' & How It Fails to Transform Care for Undocumented Immigrants," 24 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 1 (2022)
• "Love in the Time of ICE: How Parents Without Papers Are Stripped of the Right to Raise Their Children in a Safe and Healthy Environment," 36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 875 (2022)

Book Chapters

• "Relevance, Reconsidered," in Evidence: A Critical Approach, edited by I. Bennett Capers, Jasmine Harris and Julia Simon-Kerr (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026)
• "Business Responses to Dobbs: Risks, Rewards, and Suspicions Around Corporate Care," in Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway? edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Wendy Netter Epstein and Christopher Robertson (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
• "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health & Its Devastating Implication for Immigrants' Rights," in Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade, edited by Rickie Sollinger and Krystale Littlejohn (University of California Press, 2024)
• "Telehealth Transformation in COVID-19," with Ryan P. Knox, Laura Hoffman, and Abbe Gluck, in COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Abbe R. Gluck, Katherine L. Kraschel and Carmel Shachar (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Other Writing

• People v. Gerwatowski, amicus brief filed in the Michigan Supreme Court
• People v. Mosby and People v. Austin, amicus brief in the California Court of Appeal
• "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health & Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants' Rights," Bill of Health, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
• "Minimum Wage and Abortion Access: Getting What You [Can't] Pay For," National Partnership for Women & Families
• "Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: People with Disabilities and the Right to Parent," National Partnership for Women & Families and Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• "A Systemic Failure — Immigrant Moms and Babies Are Being Denied Health Care," National Partnership for Women & Families
• "Poor Quality Built Environments Hurt Moms and Babies," National Partnership for Women & Families