The (Im)possibility of Immigration Reform?

Panel I – Discussion of the current state of asylum law, focusing on areas of potential legal and humanitarian improvement

Moderator– Professor Lenni Benson, Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law, New York Law School.

Speakers– Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Associate Dean for Research and I. Herman Stern Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Sabrineh Ardalan, Clinical Professor, Harvard Law School.

Panel II – Immigrants and the Economy

Moderator– Randy Johnson

Speakers– Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Madeline Zavodny, the Donna L. Gibbs and First Coast Systems Professor of Economics at University of North Florida.

David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato Institute.

Lunch

Panel III – How Immigration Representation has Changed Over the Last 40 Years and the Need for Increased Legal Representation of Immigrants

Moderator– Marielena Hincapie, distinguished visiting immigration scholar at Cornell Law School and former executive director of the National Immigration Law Center.

Speakers– Beth Lyon, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Clinical Professor of Law, and Clinical Program Director at Cornell Law School.

Tasha Gottschalk-Fielding, IJC Legal Fellow and Cornell Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic.

Charles Kamasaki, distinguished visiting immigration scholar at Cornell Law School and senior advisor to UnidosUS.

Break

A Lighthearted Roast of Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr

Moderator – Muzaffar Chishti, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.

Roasters: Angelo Paparelli and audience members.

Reception in The Gallery