Harry Dow Lecture Series on Immigration Law
Date and Time: November 15, 5:30pm-8:00pm, Location: 5th floor Blue Sky Lounge, Suffolk Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02108.
Title: “DACA: A Story of Dreams and Fears”
Speaker: Stephen H. Legomsky
The speaker will discuss the historical context in which the DACA memo was drafted including the many years that the DREAM Act spent in Congress and the increasing social movements of undocumented youth; the legal theories that were used to draft the DACA memo; and his thoughts on the rescission of that memo as well as the federal judge’s injunction against the subsequent DAPA and DACA expansion memos in 2015.
RSVP: To RSVP, please email to suls.apalsa@gmail.com or contact Jiabei Li (President of Suffolk Law APALSA) at suls.apalsa@gmail.com
Biography:
Dr. Stephen H. Legomsky is the John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Professor Legomsky took a leave of absence from 2011 to 2013 to serve as Chief Counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the immigration services agency in the Department of Homeland Security. After retiring in July 2015, he returned to Washington to serve as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
KJ