I. India Thusi
I. India Thusi is a lawyer and academic specializing in criminal law, especially as it relates to vice, police abolition, and critical race theory. She is currently a law professor at Indiana University Bloomington and serves on the Academics Committee of the American Bar Association Professional Development Division. As of 2023, she is a visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Career Thusi was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States at an early age. She attended Gorton High School and received her BA from Emory University, where she studied anthropology and English. After graduation, she taught at Gorton for a year. She then enrolled at Fordham University School of Law, where she wrote a student note about criminal procedure for the Fordham Urban Law Journal. After graduating cum laude, she clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She then worked at the American Civil Liberties Union for a year, where she focused on the school-to-prison pipeline. After that, she clerked for Judge Damon Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then clerked for Justice Johann van der Westhuizen