Join us on Monday, March 3rd at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 223 for "A Conversation about Birthright Citizenship with Prof. Eisha Jain." Prof. Jain will discuss the history of U.S. birthright citizenship, the January executive order, and some of the Asian American cases that shaped the concept of birthright citizenship.

Registration and anonymous survey if you would like to provide questions, concerns, and anecdotes about the possibility of changes to birthright citizenship policy: go.unc.edu/AAClaw

Refreshments will be provided.

Bio:
Eisha Jain is the Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law. Her research examines how policing decisions shape civil society. Her recent work has focused on immigration enforcement, criminal records, misdemeanors, and collateral consequences. Her scholarship has been published widely in leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Georgetown Law Journal.

Jain previously worked as a civil rights lawyer, where she focused on police misconduct and wrongful conviction. For her work, she was recognized as a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist. She clerked for the Hon. Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as student director of the Immigration and Child Advocacy Clinics and won the Michael Egger Prize for the best student article published in the Yale Law Journal on a current social problem. She organizes the Carolina Law Scholarship Roundtable, which brings innovative scholars to Carolina Law to workshop book manuscripts and other works-in-progress relating to public law topics. Previously, she served as the Louis A. Horvitz Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.