Immigration Happenings at the University of Chicago

There are some interesting immigration developments going on in the heartland.

University of Chicago Law School to House Immigrant Children’s Advocacy Project

The University of Chicago Law School and children’s rights lawyer Maria Woltjen have teamed up to expand the Immigration Children’s Advocacy Project, a national initiative that provides child protection advocates to unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody. Woltjen, director and founder of the program and newly appointed Lecturer in Law at the Law School, launched the project independently in 2003. She is now bringing it to the University of Chicago where law students will serve as child advocates to undocumented children in the United States without parents or legal guardians who were apprehended by immigration authorities.   For more details, click here.

Immigration Conference

On October 27-28, the University of Chicacgo Legal Forum is hosting a conference on Immigration Law and Policy. Participants include Adam Cox (Chicago), Howard Chang (Pennsylvania), Michael A. Olivas (Houston), Peter Schuck (Yale), Lesley Wexler (Florida State). Mae Ngai (Columbia), Teresa Miller (Buffalo), Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina), Maria Woltjen (Chicago), Adam Cox (Chicago), Eric Posner (Chicago), Lenni Benson (New York), Nancy Morawetz (NYU), Muneer Ahmad (American), Susan Gzesh (Chicago), Cristina Rodriguez (NYU), Phil Martin (UC Davis: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics), Belinda Reyes (San Francisco State), Michael Wishnie (Yale),   Also, immigration blogsters JMC and KJ will participate.

KJ