Professional Identity in an Era of Mass Deportation

Perhaps nowhere is the American identity more challenged than with the Trump Administration’s racist mass deportation policy. We are a nation of immigrants. In this workshop, immigration law teachers and scholars discuss the various cases challenging current policy and how they teach about legal professional identity. What does it mean to be a lawyer in these times? What special obligations do we have to our clients and society? To the American dream of multiracial democracy? Given the most diverse cohort ever to enter law school, how do we translate our commitment to cross-cultural competency, equal access, and to eliminating bias, discrimination and racism in these times? How can we draw on their experiences to inform law and lawyering? What legal, political, and social future, ultimately, are we advocating for?