Events

Join ISG and special guest Professor Faiza Sayed to learn about developments in immigration law under the Biden Administration. Professor Sayed joins us from Brooklyn Law School, where she is the Director of the Safe Harbor Clinic and teaches courses in refugee law. Please RSVP here. This event is kindly sponsored by Themis.

Join the Immigration Student Group for our Immigration Law Career Panel on Wednesday October 18th, at 12:10pm in Room 1! Five local immigration attorneys will join us to share their career paths, what they love about their jobs and their biggest challenges, and advice for law students considering immigration law. The panelists’ experience includes working for the immigration court, representing asylum seekers, crimmigration, 9th Circuit appeals, and detention defense. RSVP required; please RSVP here. Banh mi provided for the first 20 students who RSVP. This event satisfies the 2L career exploration requirement!

Please join the Immigration Student Group for our General Meeting on September 27 at 12:10pm in McCarty Room 1. 

NLG of Lewis & Clark Law School, NLG of Portland, and OutLaw are thrilled to welcome Ann Garcia (she/her) of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild in conversation with Jess Olave ’23 (she/her) and Leni Tupper (she/her) of PCC Clear Clinic for a panel discussion and Q&A on the topic of immigration moderated by Natalie Webb ’23 (she/her) as part of the second annual Radical Queer Legal Studies Speaker Series.

The event will feature a panel discussion of 60 minutes followed by a Q&A, and will be live and recorded. Food and soft drinks will be provided. Please RSVP so that we know how much food to provide.

ISG is hosting an early screening of the HBO documentary, The Undocumented Lawyer. We’ll host a virtual Q&A with Lizbeth Mateo, the attorney profiled in the film, as well as one of the filmmakers, Zach Ingrasci. We’ll discuss immigration law, the Sanctuary movement, and fighting for justice in 2020.