Immigration Profs Doing Remarkable Work
This week I am extremely proud to see coverage of some amazing immigration work by my friends and colleagues, Penn State’s own Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia; and University of Baltimore‘s Liz Keyes. Wadhia, who directs Penn State Law‘s Center for Immigrants Rights is the Samuel Weis Faculty Scholar, developed a toolkit for practitioners representing noncitizens in withholding only proceedings. Read more about this important project she involved her clinic students in here:
http://law.psu.edu/news/immigration-clinic-creates-toolkit-withholding-only-proceedings
In related news, a recent Washington Post story profiled Elizabeth Keyes’ Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law. The story explains the clinic’s work with Baltimore’s Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) on cases involving unaccompanied immigrant minors:
With the national spotlight shining on immigration issues, this important work by our colleagues reminds us why instilling the values of lawyering for social justice are critical to our work with law students.