Faculty and Administration Profiles

Aneel L. Chablani

About

Aneel L. Chablani is a seasoned public interest attorney who has focused his legal career on issues of poverty and race and using the law to fight injustice and inequities. Aneel currently serves as Vice President and Legal Director of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Aneel oversees the planning, development, and execution of the organization’s legal work in the areas of Fair Housing, Equitable Community Development, Education Equity, Voting Rights and Economic Justice. Aneel works closely with staff to develop systemic civil rights litigation and impact advocacy that seeks to advance race equity and economic justice throughout Illinois and Indiana. Aneel has worked with his staff to create a community-based advocacy model which centers community partnerships and community-driven goals in all of the organization’s work.

Aneel’s previous work includes ten years serving as Director of Advocacy at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), an unrestricted poverty law firm serving Northwest Ohio. At ABLE Aneel worked with an advocacy management team on development of impact litigation and broad-based advocacy in practice groups covering Housing and Community Economic Development, Education, Healthcare and Public Benefits and Migrant Farmworker Rights. Prior to his work at ABLE, Aneel worked with the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans representing inmates on Louisiana’s death row on direct appeals to the Louisiana Supreme Court and petitions for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Aneel began his legal career with the Legal Assistance Foundation in Chicago (now Legal Aid Chicago) working in the areas of housing and consumer rights.

Throughout his career, Aneel has been active in training and teaching opportunities for colleagues and aspiring public interest lawyers. He is a frequent presenter at trainings, conferences and symposia, sharing his experience and knowledge, and is dedicated to helping shape the next generation of lawyers with a passion for justice and equity.

Aneel is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law (1997), choosing Loyola because of its commitment to service to others as a Jesuit institution of higher learning. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Degrees

Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Juris Doctor, May 1997

University of Notre Dame
Bachelor of Arts, With Honors, May 1992

Professional & Community Affiliations

Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Courses Taught

Law and Poverty