Olivas v. Kobach: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!

On Friday, April 6, 2007, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, Migration Policy Institute will host two leading legal experts debate the merits of proposed federal immigration legislation, the DREAM Act, and in-state college tuition for unauthorized immigrant students.

IN ONE CORNER: Professor Kris W. Kobach is the Daniel L. Brenner Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he teaches courses on Constitutional Law and Immigration. He has served as trial counsel in immigration-related cases in Kansas, California, and Pennsylvania, where he has brought challenges to residency tuition status for unauthorized immigrants and defended local immigration ordinances. He also served in the Department of Justice as Counsel for Attorney General John Ashcroft.

IN THE OTHER CORNER:  Professor Michael A. Olivas is the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director of the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches Higher Education Law and Immigration Law. He has written about in-state residency plans for many years, drafted several such plans (including the first one, Texas HB 1403), and has served as expert witness and consultant to states seeking to enact and defend such plans. He is also the author of The Law and Higher Education casebook, in its third edition.

The debate will be held in MPI’s Conference Room at 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20036.  To RSVP or if you have any questions, please email Lisa Dixon at events@migrationpolicy.org.

KJ

P.S.  For more information on the event, click here.