Three NYU Law students join CCJ as Access to Justice Summer 2026 Fellows

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Please join us in welcoming Nala Sharadjaya, Tag Quijano, and Henry Muhlheim as our inaugural cohort for the Access to Justice Fellowship! Fellows will spend the summer writing a policy paper on a key access to justice issue. 

Nala Sharadjaya

Nala Sharadjaya is a rising 2L interested in technology and social and economic justice. Before NYU, she worked as an AI policy researcher for the Alan Turing Institute and studied philosophy and computer science at the LSE and Princeton. On campus, she is a Co-Chair of NYU Law & Political Economy and serves on the boards of the Unemployment Action Center and Rights over Technology. Alongside her A2J Fellowship project, Nala will spend the summer as a Legal Trainee with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin, Germany.

Recognizing the background inequalities that structure access to legal representation, and retaining a presumption against techno-solutionist modes of addressing complex social challenges, Nala’s paper will analyze the risks and opportunities of LLMs as a prospective resource for self-represented litigants in state civil court.

Tag Quijano

Tag Quijano is a rising 3L at NYU Law. Before law school, he served as a public health advisor to U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy where he focused on substance use issues and health equity. During his master’s in public health, Tag worked on an overdose response team and published research on how Xylazine complicated overdose response and drug user health. Tag came to law school because the public health problems he cares about are inseparable from the legal frameworks that produced them. He is incredibly excited to be an A2J fellow exploring the intersection of access to justice and disability rights. 

Currently, efforts are underway to reverse federal and state precedents, including Olmstead v. L.C., that constrain involuntary commitment of people with mental illness. Tag’s paper explores the procedural architecture of civil commitment across several states, the differences among state programs that offer legal representation, and provides a path, both in law and policy, for reform towards adequate representation.
 

Henry Muhlheim

Henry Muhlheim (he/him) is a rising 3L who graduated from the University of Chicago with B.A. in History in 2020 and spent his first two years out of college as a legal assistant for a Plaintiff's-side law firm. He then went on to work as a paralegal at the Southern District of New York's Pro Se Legal Assistance Clinic, where he developed an abiding interest in access to justice and pro se litigants. Since coming to NYU Law, Henry has gotten involved in the Unemployment Action Center and currently serves as president of the UAC Regional Board.

Henry’s paper will explore settlement negotiation in the context of pro se litigation. Because almost all civil litigation that is resolved pre-trial results in a negotiated settlement, leveling the playing field in negotiation and settlement is crucial for A2J. He will explore tools and policies to empower pro se litigants in negotiating settlements while also protecting pro se litigants from unjust agreements.