2018 Fordham Urban Law Journal's Cooper Walsh Colloquium Remodeling Sanctuary Urban Immigration in a New Era
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2018 Fordham Urban Law Journal's Cooper Walsh Colloquium Remodeling Sanctuary Urban Immigration in a New Era NOVEMBER 9, 2018 CLE COURSE MATERIALS Table of Contents 1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) 2. CLE Materials Panel 1: Blocks to Status: Stumbling Blocks & Panel 4: Urban Rebellion: Immigration & City Building Blocks to Urban Immigration Organizing Kang, Alex. Loosening the Federal Grip on Gjecovi, Sibora; James, Esther; Chenoweth, Jeff. Immigration Policy. (View in document) Immigrant-Led Organizers in Their Own Voices: Local Realities and Shared Visions. Johnson, Kit. Opportunities & Anxieties: A study of (View in document) International Students in the Trump Era. (View in document) Panel 2: Cities as Havens: The Evolution of Sanctuary Policies Kwon, Christine; Roy, Marissa. Sanctuary Cities: Distinguishing Rhetoric From Reality. (View in document) Kwon, Christine; Roy, Marissa. Local Action, National Impact: Standing Up For Sanctuary Cities (View in document) Pham, Huyen. State-Created Immigration Climates and Domestic Migration. (View in document) Panel 3: The Balancing Act: Immigration & Due Process Peleg, Talia. Detaining Immigrants Indefinitely is Un- American . Shame on the Supreme Court. (View in document) Benner, Katie; Savage, Charlie. Due Process for Undocumented Immigrants, Explained. (View in document) Heinz, Joanna. Pardoning Immigrants. (View in document) Zachary Ahmad Director at the University of Georgia, School of Zachary Ahmad is a policy counsel at the New Law. Before coming to UGA, he served as an York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the New acting assistant professor at the New York York affiliate of the ACLU. He works largely on University School of Law, where he taught in legislative and policy issues related to the Lawyering Program from 2010 to 2013 and immigration, with a focus on efforts to assisted in the Immigrant Rights Clinic. disentangle local law enforcement from the Cade’s scholarship explores the role of enforcement of federal immigration law. nonfederal actors and institutions in the modern immigration system, judicial review of Prior to joining the NYCLU, Ahmad worked as deportation procedures and intersections a staff attorney with the Juvenile Rights Practice between immigration enforcement and criminal at the Legal Aid Society of New York, law. His most recent work is forthcoming in representing children and young adults in the Northwestern University Law Family Court proceedings in Brooklyn, and Review, the Washington & Lee Law assisting clients with a range of matters outside Review and Northwestern University Law of court. Ahmad graduated cum laude from Review Online. Cade's prior scholarship has George Washington University with a B.A. in been published in the Fordham Law Review, journalism in 2006, and received his law degree the Columbia Law Review Sidebar, the NYU from CUNY School of Law in 2013. Law Review Online, the UC Davis Law Review (twice) and many other journals. Professor Jennifer Stepp Breen Jennifer Breen joins the College of Law as a Prior to entering academia, Cade represented Syracuse University College of Law Faculty noncitizens in a wide range of immigration Fellow in Fall 2018. Prior to joining Syracuse proceedings and family court matters while University, Breen worked as a judicial law clerk working in both small firm and nonprofit to the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler on the settings. Cade played a central role in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second expansion of New York family court Circuit. Prior to her clerkship, Breen practiced guardianship jurisdiction and was lead counsel immigration law. Prior to law school, she was a or amicus on several state court appeals Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Ithaca concerning immigrant juveniles. Following law College. school, he clerked for U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold in the Eastern Breen’s research explores democratic politics in District of New York and was a Skadden Public practice, from the evolving politics of work in Interest Fellow at The Door. the twentieth-century United States to more Cade earned his undergraduate degree from the recent developments in immigration law. Her University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and writing has appeared in scholarly journals his law degree magna cum laude from Brooklyn including the Journal of Policy History and the Law School, where he was executive articles American Criminal Law Review. editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, a Jerome Prince Scholar and an Edward V. Sparer Public Breen earned her J.D. (summa cum laude) from Interest Fellow. Cornell Law School in 2015, her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Professor Ming Hsu Chen Pennsylvania in 2011 and 2007, respectively, Ming Hsu Chen is an Associate Professor at the and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a faculty member of the law school. She directs (with highest honors and highest distinction). the Immigration Law and Policy Program and holds faculty affiliations in Political Science and Professor Jason A. Cade Ethnic Studies. Professor Chen brings an Jason A. Cade is an Associate Professor of Law interdisciplinary perspective to the study of & Community Health Law Partnership Clinic immigration, civil rights, and the administrative state. In the law school, she teaches a variety of provides support to MRNY's TGNCIQ justice law and social science courses including project. Yasmine is a lifelong New Yorker and a Immigration Law, Citizenship Law, graduate of CUNY School of Law, the only Administrative Law, Legislation & Regulation, publicly-supported public interest law school in Law & Politics: Race in America, and Law & New York City. Social Change. Her research examines the integration of immigrants and racial minorities Professor Kit Johnson into U.S. society. She also writes about the Professor Kit Johnson is an Associate Professor legitimacy of executive action in immigration at the University of Oklahoma where she teaches law, immigration federalism, and the sanctuary Immigration, Crimmigration, Civil Procedure, movement in the U.S. and Trial Techniques. As an adjunct professor for Hofstra Law, she teaches a one-week three- Professor Allan Colbern credit course on Immigration Law and Border Allan Colbern is an Assistant Professor of Enforcement. Her scholarship focuses on Political Science at Arizona State University, immigration law. with expertise in American institutions, race and immigration. His first book, Prior to teaching, Johnson was an attorney with Co-authored with Karthick Ramakrishnan, is the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & forthcoming in 2019 with Cambridge University Olson LLP, where she practiced general Press and is tentatively called Progressive State commercial litigation. Her clients included Citizenship. Colbern and Ramakrishnan Berkshire Hathaway, Rambus, and Brighton examine how federalism shapes citizenship in Collectibles. Johnson also provided pro bono the United States by exploring what it means for representation in several adoption and states to expand or contract the rights of guardianship proceedings before the Los immigrants, Blacks, LGBTQ communities, and Angeles county courts. In addition, she served people with disabilities. Colbern was recently on the Board of Directors of Inner Circle Foster awarded the Russell Sage Foundation’s Care and Adoption Services, a non-profit agency Presidential Award to support his second book, in California's San Fernando Valley. Today’s Runaway Slaves: Unauthorized Immigrants in a Federalist Framework, which Before entering private practice, Johnson served examines the development of sanctuary policies a law clerk to the Honorable Pamela A. Rymer throughout American history, from protections of the United States Court of Appeals for the given to runaway slaves (1780-1860), to those Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Robert C. given to Jewish asylum seekers (1921-1965), Broomfield of the United States District Court Central American asylum seekers (1980-1997), for the District of Arizona. and contemporary undocumented immigrants (2001-2018). Colbern is also currently Professor Christopher Lasch partnering with the Center for American Professor Christopher Lasch is co-director of the Progress on examining the negative effects of Immigration Law and Policy Clinic and the anti-sanctuary policies on local trust of police Criminal Defense Clinic at Denver Law. He has through examining city level 911 emergency call focused his legal scholarship on the entangling data. and disentangling of criminal and immigration enforcement systems, and particularly on legal Yasmine Chahkar Farhang issues pertaining to so-called “sanctuary” Yasmine Chahkar Farhang is lead immigration policies, such as those which attempt to limit the attorney at Make the Road NY, a membership- complicity of local criminal processes in led community organization that builds power immigration enforcement. His recent work through community organizing, policy addressed the legality of ICE arrests in innovation, education and survival services. She courthouses, and he has written extensively and represents immigrants in removal proceedings submitted numerous amicus briefs concerning and in affirmative applications for relief, and the practice of local jails prolonging the custody of inmates who would be otherwise released Talia Peleg is a Visiting Clinical Law Professor through the use of immigration “detainers.”