Bidish Sarma

Bidish Sarma will join the law clinic faculty after previously serving as a fellow with the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. Before coming to Loyola, he was an Assistant District Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office. In Louisiana, he has provided pro bono representation to individuals serving life sentences in their commutation proceedings and post-conviction litigation. He also supported the development and launch of The Visiting Room Project. 

He began his legal career in 2008 at the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans, where he represented individuals sentenced to death on their appeals. He served as a clinical teaching fellow at the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic from 2012 through 2015 and has also taught as an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School and the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Bidish received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008 where he received the Khosla Memorial Fund for Human Dignity Prize, which is awarded to the student who best demonstrates an active engagement in advancing the values of human dignity. He graduated with highest distinction from the University of Michigan in 2005 with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy.