Since 1993, Reginald F. Lewis Fellows have gone on to amazing careers in the legal academy. Among the alumni and alumnae of the program are tenured professors at the top law schools in the United States. The following table provides detailed information about the current work of former fellows.
2026-2027 Reginald F. Lewis Fellow
SAGNIK DAS
Sagnik Das is the 2026-2027 Reginald F. Lewis Fellow. He is also an SJD student at Harvard Law School, where he is writing a dissertation on the making of the ‘rules-based international order,’ focusing specifically on international economic law, the laws of war, and human rights. Using intellectual history as its primary method, his dissertation studies how a particular conception of international constitutionalism remade international law in the aftermath of the Cold War, as well as what competing ideas lost out in the process. Previously, he was a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. His scholarship has previously appeared (and is forthcoming) in the Yale Law Journal, among other places.
Before starting his SJD, he practiced in international arbitration with a law firm in France, and taught as an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School in India. Das completed an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a first law degree from National Law University, Jodhpur in India.
Sagnik can be reached at sadas@law.harvard.edu
Previous Lewis Fellows:
| LEWIS FELLOW | FELLOWSHIP YEAR(S) | CURRENT POSITION |
| No Fellow | 2025-2026 | |
| Saúl Ramírez | 2024-2025 | |
| Hassaan Shahawy | 2023-2024 | Law Clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. United States Supreme Court |
| Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana | 2022-2023 | Asst. Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Chika Okafor | 2021-2022 | Asst. Professor of Law Northwestern Pritzker School of Law |
| Zahra Takhshid | 2019-2021 | Assoc. Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
| No Fellow | 2018-2019 | |
| Nikolas Bowie | 2017-2018 | Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Duane Rudolph | 2015-2017 | Assoc. Professor of Law University of San Francisco School of Law |
| No Fellow | 2014-2015 | |
| K. Sabeel Rahman | 2012-2014 | Professor of Law Cornell Law School |
| No Fellow | 2011-2012 | |
| No Fellow | 2010-2011 | |
| Abbye J. Atkinson | 2009-2010 | Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law |
| Vincent Chiao | 2008-2010 | Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Programs University of Toronto, Faculty of Law |
| Eleanor Marie Brown | 2007-2009 | Affiliate Professor of Rock Ethics Penn State Law |
| Hilary C. Robinson | 2006-2007 | Assoc. Professor of Law and Sociology Northeastern University School of Law |
| Angela M. Banks | 2004-2006 | Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| Timothy William Waters | 2003-2004 | Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law |
| Gavin Clarkson | 2002-2003 | Owner/Managing Director Native American Capital |
| Cristina M. Rodríguez | 2001-2002 | Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law Yale Law School |
| Laura Nyantung Beny | 2000-2001 | Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School |
| Stephen M. Rich | 2000-2001 | Maurice Jones, Jr. – Class of 1925 Professor of Law University of Southern California School of Law |
| Kenneth W. Mack | 1999-2000 | Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Lino Mendiola, III | 1998-1999 | Global Co-CEO and US Chief Executive of Eversheds Sutherland |
| Marc Spindelman | 1997-1998 | The Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law Ohio State University Moritz College of Law |
| Ralph Richard Banks | 1996-1997 | Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law Stanford Law School |
| Alexa J. Smith | 1995-1996 | Director of Major Gifts NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. |
| Sydney Patel | 1994-1995 | |
| Richard Thompson Ford (Inaugural Lewis Fellow) | 1993-1994 | George E. Osborn Professor of Law Stanford Law School |