Bio
Bilal Malik is a Coblentz Fellow at the ACLU of Northern California. Bilal works on issues relating to criminal justice, racial justice, and economic justice.
Bilal’s current cases include an administrative Federal Torts Claim Act action on behalf of two Guatemalan teenage sisters who were sexually assaulted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer. He is also part of the litigation team for Phillips v. State of California, a challenge to the systemic denial of Fresno County indigent defendants’ right to counsel.
Bilal earned his law degree at Berkeley Law, where he was involved with the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team, the Coalition for Diversity, and the South Asian Law Students Association. Bilal also served as a law clerk with Muslim Advocates, a certified law student with the East Bay Community Law Center, and an extern for the Honorable Jon. S. Tigar of the Northern District of California.
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