Conference News: Minuteman Founder Visits Harvard Law School, USF Hosts Conference on Undocumented Workers

Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, a committed restrictionist immigration group, and previous congressional candidate, visited Harvard Law School this week.  The visit is reported in larger than life fashion on Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project website, which presumably is named to distinguish it from other splinter Minuteman factions that have been feuding the last few years.

Gilchrist participated in an immigration conference last Thursday at Harvard Law School organized by the Harvard Journal on Legislation.  A video of the confrence is on the website.  Many legislative staffers and immigrant rights attorneys participated as did Professors Richard Boswell (Hastings), Michael Wishnie (Yale), and Deborah Anker (Harvard).

While Harvard held its immigration conference on Thursday, the USF Law Review held an excellent conference on “The Evolving Definition of the Undocumented Worker” on Friday.  (For more information, click here.).  I am sure that it was coincidental but, while Jim Gilchrist was at Harvard, Harvard’s Gerald Neuman was at USF!  John Trasviña, President and General Counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, gave a keynote address.  Kudos to the USF Law Review and Professors Maria Ontiveros and Rhonda Magee for a thoughtful and well-organized event.

KJ