Anika Singh Lemar

Anika Singh Lemar is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She and her students provide legal services to affordable housing developers, small businesses, community development financial institutions, farms and farmer’s markets, fair housing advocates, cooperatives, and neighborhood associations. They also represent tenants and homeowners facing involuntary displacement as a result of evictions, foreclosures, and substandard housing conditions. Lemar writes about land use, zoning, and affordable housing. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association’s Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law. Lemar has served on numerous boards of directors and state and local commissions including, currently, the boards of directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and New Haven Bank, the State of Connecticut’s Commission on Connecticut’s Development and Future, and the City of New Haven’s Affordable Housing Commission.

Lemar was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and, later, a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center (since renamed TakeRootJustice) in New York. Prior to joining the Yale Law School faculty, she practiced real estate and community development law at a Connecticut law firm.

Lemar received her B.A., cum laude, in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University and her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, a Dean’s Scholar, and a Robert McKay Scholar. While in law school, she received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and helped to found Next City, a highly-regarded urban affairs publication.