Symposium 2009 Biographies

Biographies for Symposium Panelists and Moderators

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Panel #1: New Legal Methods and Approaches for the Newly Defined Immigrant Worker
Professor Maria Ontiveros (Moderator) University of San Francisco School of Law	Professor Ontiveros focuses her scholarly work on employment law with an emphasis on immigrant workers' rights. She publishes and presents regularly on a variety of related topics, including the history of immigrant workers, workplace harassment of women of color, organized labor, immigrants and the Thirteenth Amendment, and access to education for children of undocumented workers. Ontiveros is co-author of Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Professor Ellen Dannin Penn State Dickinson School of Law	Ellen Dannin joined the Penn State Dickinson School of Law faculty in 2006 after teaching at Wayne State University Law School and in San Diego at California Western School of Law. She has also taught at the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Massachusetts — Amherst Masters Program in Union Leadership and Administration, and Massey University in New Zealand. She has been a scholar in residence at Victoria University Wellington, Otago University, and Waikato University, all in New Zealand. Professor Dannin has been a consultant for the United States and New Zealand Departments of Labor and the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) Workplace Quality Issues Panel and is on the CCH Insight Panel of Experts. In 2007, she was elected to the Executive Board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). Professor Dannin has been invited to give testimony to the California State Assembly on privatization and to the United States Congress on the use of Strategic Litigation Against Public Policy (SLAPP) suits to silence academics, specifically focusing on the Beverly Enterprises lawsuit filed against Professor Kate Bronfenbrenner. Before entering teaching, Professor Dannin was a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board and clerked for Judge Cornelia Kennedy, both in Detroit, Michigan. Professor Dannin writes primarily in the areas of collective bargaining, privatization, New Zealand labour law, and legal education. She is a prolific writer of both scholarly articles and popular pieces. She is the author of Taking Back the Workers' Law — How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights, Cornell University Press, 2006 and Working Free: The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, Auckland University Press 1997, and is currently working on a book about the privatization of the Internal Revenue Service: No-Bodies Were There — Privatization and People with Disabilities. Her service to the legal profession includes work as a contributing editor, to the American Bar Association, The Developing Labor Law and her monthly online newsletter, Labor and the Law, is widely read by academics, lawyers, and laypersons. She has served on the boards of many labor-related organizations and publications, including the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Labor and Employment Law Section; the Labor Law Journal; and WorkingUSA. She is co-chair of the Law and Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Labor Rights. Professor Dannin regularly teaches courses in Labor Law, Employment Law, various Labor Law Seminars, and Civil Procedure. She has also taught Evidence and Public Sector Labor Law.
Professor Ruben Garcia California Western School of Law	Professor Garcia joined the faculty at California Western in 2003 after teaching at the University of California, Davis School of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was a William H. Hastie Fellow. Garcia's research focuses on labor and employment law, with particular attention to the effects of race, gender, immigration and globalization on the world of work. He teaches primarily in the Labor and Employment Law Concentration at California Western, as well as Professional Responsibility and a course in Constitutional Law at the University of California, San Diego. Before teaching, Garcia specialized in labor and employment law while in private practice in Los Angeles. He now serves on the executive boards of the Labor Relations Section of the Association of American Law Schools and the Society of American Law Teachers. Garcia is also active in the Law and Society Association and the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Professor Garcia's scholarly articles have been published in the Hastings Law Journal, the Florida Law Review, the Florida State University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, and the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, among other publications. He is currently writing a book for New York University Press, entitled Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection.
Professor Beth Lyon Villanova University School of Law	Beth Lyon is an Associate Professor at the Villanova University School of Law. She is the founding Director of Villanova's Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic and of the university's interdisciplinary Interpreter Internship Program. Professor Lyon's scholarship focuses on the civil rights, worker rights, and human rights of migrants. She has participated as a trainer in numerous foreign advocate and clinical law teacher development programs. Before joining the Villanova faculty, Professor Lyon was a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic of the Washington College of Law, American University and a Staff Attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). Professor Lyon serves on the boards of the Society of American Law Teachers, Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc., and the Global Workers Justice Alliance. She is Vice-President of the Board of Friends of Farmworkers, Inc. Professor Lyon holds a J.D. and an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Professor Sarah Paoletti University of Pennsylvania Law School	Sarah Paoletti is a Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she founded and directs the Transnational Legal Clinic. From 2003-2006, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law American University, where she also taught a seminar on the labor and employment rights of immigrant workers. Her areas of expertise include international human rights, immigrant and migrant rights, asylum law, and labor and employment law. She has written on and presented on the intersection of migration and international human rights, particularly as it relates to the labor rights of migrants in the U.S., before Committees of the United Nations, the Organization of American States and at different conferences. Prior to joining the faculty at American University, she was a staff attorney at Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., a statewide legal services program serving migrant workers in Pennsylvania, where she was an Independence Foundation Public Interest Fellow, and later a Skadden Fellow. From 1999 to 2000, she was a law clerk for the Hon. Judge Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit. She received her JD from the Washington College of Law American University (summa cum laude) in 1998, and her B.A. from Yale University in 1992.
Panel #2: The Meaning of Immigrant Worker — Drawing Parallels Between Chattel Slavery and U.S. Immigration Policy
Professor Gerald Neuman (Moderator) Harvard Law School	Gerald L. Neuman is J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and immigration and nationality law. His research currently focuses on rights of foreign nationals, habeas corpus, and transnational dimensions of constitutionalism. He is the author of Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law (1996), and co-author of Louis Henkin et al., Human Rights (1st ed. 1999, 2d ed. forthcoming 2009).
Professor Devon Carbado UCLA School of Law	Devon Carbado, who recently served as the Vice Dean of the Faculty, teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication. He was elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of Law Classes of 2000 and 2006, is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recently awarded the University Distinguished Teaching Award, The Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. He is a recipient of the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship, which modeled on the Guggenheims, is awarded to scholars whose work furthers the goals of Brown v. Board of Education. Professor Carbado graduated from Harvard Law School in 1994. At Harvard, he was the Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, a member of the Board of Student Advisors, and winner of the Northeast Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. After receiving his law degree, he joined Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles as an associate before his appointment as a Faculty Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity. He is editor of Race Law Stories (Foundation Press) (with Rachel Moran) and is working on a book on employment discrimination tentatively titled Acting White (Oxford University Press) (with Mitu Gulati). He is a former director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law, a faculty associate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, a board member of the African American Policy Forum and a James Town Fellow.
Dean Kevin Johnson UC Davis School of Law	Kevin R. Johnson is Dean of the School of Law, and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis. His book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity (1999) was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Johnson also has published Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach (2002), Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (2002), and The "Huddled Masses" Myth Immigration and Civil Rights (2004), as well as numerous articles on immigration, civil rights, and racial identity. His latest book is Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws (2007). A graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Johnson earned his undergraduate degree in economics from UC Berkeley. The recipient of many honors and awards, including Clyde Ferguson Award of the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools (2004) and Latino Professor of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association (2006). In 2003, Johnson was elected to the American Law Institute. He currently serves as president of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California and on the board of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He is co-editor of the ImmigrationProf blog.
Professor Rhonda Magee University of San Francisco School of Law	Rhonda V. Magee is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco. She earned her J.D. M.A. (Sociology) and B.A. (with Distinction) from the University of Virginia, and was promoted to full tenure at USF in February, 2003. She teaches Torts; Insurance Law and Policy; Race, Law and Policy in American Legal History; Contemporary Issues in Race and Law and Evolving Notions of (In) Equality; and Immigration Law. She is currently working on a project examining the intersection between chattel slavery and early immigration law. Professor Magee studied conflict management theory and empirical research methods in sociology (focusing on qualitative methods in her Master's degree thesis) before attending law school. While in law school, Professor Magee published a Note in the Virginia Law Review on the subject of the African American reparations, The Master's Tools, From the Bottom Up: African American Reparations Theory in Mainstream and Outsider Remedies Discourse, 79 Va. L. Rev. 864 (1993), one of the earliest treatments of the topic in a mainstream legal scholarly journal. Though written while she was a law student, Professor Magee's essay is considered one of the seminal pieces of reparations scholarship. Prior to entering academia, Professor Magee practiced law in San Francisco, representing a variety of corporate clients in multi-state complex litigation. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications such as the Law Reviews of the University of Virginia, University of Alabama, Temple Law School, and in the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has expanded from considering the history of race and law in America, and the implications of "race" for what it means to be human being under American law, into the effort to teach the study and practice of law in ways which more fully humanize legal education and law practice. Her work challenges us to rethink the intersections between race, law and notions of humanity in American legal education, history and culture.
Panel #3: Sex and the Female Immigrant Worker: the Continuum Between Slavery, Trafficking, and Harassment
Mr. Paul Lufkin (Moderator) Staff Attorney, California Supreme Court	Paul Lufkin (BA, 1986, University of California, Santa Barbara; JD, 1989, University of California, Berkeley; Harvard Exchange Program) is an attorney with the Civil Central Staff at the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco. Formerly, he was Staff Attorney to Associate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar (Supreme Court of California) and practiced civil litigation with Morrison & Foerster (San Francisco) and Mori Sogo Law Offices (Tokyo). He has published and taught at McGeorge School of Law in the field of Immigration and Nationality Law and, at John F. Kennedy University School of Law, on constitutional and litigation topics. Elsewhere, his publications center in the field of asylum and refugee law. Presently, he volunteers as Managing Editor of the treatise Law of Asylum in the United States (by Prof. Deborah Anker of Harvard Law School). He is the owner/operator of the Fireside Clinic for Stopping Smoking, the Environmental Protection Information Center (Garberville) and the Tibet Justice Center (Berkeley).
Professor Adrienne Davis Washington University School of Law in St. Louis	Adrienne D. Davis is the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University Law School, where she teaches contracts, trusts & estates, and a variety of upper-level legal theory courses, including sex equality, law and literature, and slavery. Her scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery. She also does work on feminist legal theory and conceptions of justice and reparations. She is recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation, the first to explore black women and labor, and the most recent administered through Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion. In 2001 Davis was a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Davis is currently serving her second term as a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. She is past chair of the Law and Humanities Section of the Association of American Law Schools and has been on the editorial boards of Law and History Review and Journal of Legal Education. She is the co-author of the book, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (NYU Press), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Prior to joining the faculty in January 2008, Davis served as the Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina and was a professor and co-director of the Gender, Work & Family Project at Washington College of Law, American University. Davis graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School and clerked for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professor Kathleen Kim Loyola Law School	Before joining Loyola Law School, Kathleen Kim pioneered civil litigation on behalf of human trafficking survivors at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. She launched and directed the Human Trafficking Project as a Skadden Fellow, the first of its kind to focus on the civil rights of trafficked individuals to receive monetary compensation for the abuse of forced labor. In 2005, Kathleen became the inaugural Immigrants' Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in the representation of indigent immigrants in deportation proceedings and other immigration matters. Kathleen co-directs the Anti-Trafficking Litigation Assistance and Support Team (ATLAST) and is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery coordinated by the California Attorney General's office. She has published several works providing critical perspectives on the impact of United States' policies and practices on the rights of immigrants and human trafficking survivors. Kathleen received her J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was an associate editor of Stanford Law Review and a Judge M. Takasugi Public Interest Fellow.
Ms. Mónica Ramírez Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center	Ms. Mónica Ramírez is the founder and project director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Mónica has dedicated the 14 years to farmworker and immigrant rights activism. She is the daughter and the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers. Mónica launched Esperanza: The Farmworker Women's Legal Initiative in 2003 as a part of the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project of Florida Legal Services. In February 2006, Esperanza became part of the Southern Poverty Law Center. At that time, Mónica launched the Esperanza National Initiative to End Workplace Sexual Violence Against Farmworker and Other Low-Wage Immigrant Women. This initiative included the formation of a national working group to address this issue. Mónica uses a holistic approach in her representation of immigrant victims of workplace sexual violence. She is the co-editor and author of selected chapters of "Representing Farmworker Women Who Have Been Sexually Harassed: A Best Practices Manual." She is a frequent trainer on workplace sexual violence against low-wage immigrant women. Mónica graduated from Loyola University Chicago and the Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law.
Professor Leticia Saucedo William S. Boyd School of Law at University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Professor Saucedo earned her J. D. in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Following graduation, she first served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court, and then was an associate of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobsen in New York City, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, she was a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases. Professor Saucedo has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2003. She teaches Torts, Immigration Law, and co-directs the Immigration Law Clinic. She has co-developed and taught international and domestic service learning legal courses covering the immigration consequences of crime, and domestic violence in a post-conflict society. Her research interests lie in the intersection between employment and labor law and immigration law. She is co- editing a casebook on Latinos and the law, entitled, The Legal Construction of a Latino Identity. Her articles have appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, the Buffalo Law Review, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the Richmond Law Review, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Professor Saucedo currently holds a position as a research scholar with the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.
Keynote Address" "National Immigration Policy under the New Administration"
John Trasviña President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)	Appointed MALDEF President and General Counsel in November 2006, Mr. Trasviña began his career at MALDEF in Washington, DC as a legislative attorney in 1985. He later worked for U.S. Senator Paul Simon as General Counsel & Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Mr. Trasviña as Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices. As Special Counsel, he led the only federal government office devoted solely to immigrant workplace rights. He was the highest ranking Latino attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. After returning to California, he taught immigration law at Stanford Law School. A highly sought after advocate, Mr. Trasviña testified in the last Congress before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of extension of the Voting Rights Act and before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee against English Only legislation. In 2006, he was named Attorney of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association, as well as the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association. In 2007, Mr. Trasviña was named to Poder magazine's "The Poderosos 100," Latino Leaders magazine's "101 Top Leaders of the Hispanic Community," and Hispanic Trends identified him as a "Mover and Shaker." A native of San Francisco, Mr. Trasviña is a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School. Before coming to Los Angeles, he was a member of the San Francisco Elections Commission, president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, and a board member of the La Raza Lawyers Association, CORO of Northern California, Lowell High School Alumni Association, League of Women Voters and Pacific Coast Immigration Museum. He serves on the boards of the Latino Issues Forum and Campaign for College Opportunity, is an elected member of the American Law Institute and was recently elected Chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda.
Breakout Session 1: ICE Raids: Raising Human Rights Issues in the Immigrant Worker Context
Professor Maria Ontiveros (Moderator) University of San Francisco School of Law	Professor Ontiveros focuses her scholarly work on employment law with an emphasis on immigrant workers' rights. She publishes and presents regularly on a variety of related topics, including the history of immigrant workers, workplace harassment of women of color, organized labor, immigrants and the Thirteenth Amendment, and access to education for children of undocumented workers. Ontiveros is co-author of Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Mr. David Bacon Documentary Photographer and Author	David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer. He was a labor organizer among immigrant workers, and today documents the changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. Bacon belongs to The Newspaper Guild/CWA, was chair of the board of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights. His books include The Children of NAFTA (University of California Press, 2004), Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) and Illegal People — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008).
Professor Bill Hing UC Davis School of Law	Bill Hing is visiting the University of San Francisco School of Law from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he directs the clinical program. Hing is the founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, and is involved with the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center and the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. His publications include Deporting Our Souls—Morality, Values, and Immigration Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple University Press, 2004), To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York University Press, 1997), and Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford University Press, 1993). Hing is a graduate of the USF School of Law Class of 1974 and also holds a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley.
Professor Lorraine Schmall Northern Illinois University College of Law	Lorraine Schmall has taught at Northern Illinois University College of Law since 1989. Prior to joining the NIU faculty, she was an associate professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and a visiting assistant professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Before teaching, she practiced union-side labor law in Chicago and worked at the NLRB in Washington, D.C. She's visited at several schools, including Brooklyn Law School, Toledo, St. John's and the new Florida International School of Law. She is a visiting scholar at Kings College, London this Spring. Lorraine has published dozens of articles and books on topics related to labor, employment and criminal law. She teaches labor law, ERISA, employment law, criminal law, and volunteers as a pro-bono attorney in Illinois death penalty cases. She is a contributing editor for the ABA/BNA Developing Labor Law hornbook and a member of the Developing Labor Law Committee of the ABA; serves on the Consultative Group for the first Restatement on Employment Law undertaken by the American Law Institute, of which she is a member; and is and has been a Section Officer in both the American Association of Law Schools Section on Labor and Employment Law, and LERA, the Labor and Employment Research Association. Her current research interests are immigration and work law and disability discrimination in employment.
Breakout Session 2: Immigrant Workers and the Practice of Traditional Labor Law
Professor Christopher Cameron (Moderator) Southwestern Law School	Christopher David Ruiz Cameron is Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where he teaches Labor & Employment Law, Civil Procedure, and Sports Law. Professor Cameron is co-author of two West Group publications: the treatise Labor Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts, and Boycotts (2d ed. 2004 & Supp. 2008-09) and the text Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace (2009). His scholarship on the law of the workplace law has appeared in the California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and other prominent periodicals. After earning his J.D. at Harvard Law School, where he served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review, Professor Cameron clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In private practice, he spent six years representing labor organizations and employee benefit funds. Professor Cameron joined the faculty of Southwestern in 1991 and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1998 to 2008. He has been a part-time labor arbitrator in Southern California since 1995. Professor Cameron is past chair of both the Labor Relations & Employment Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools and the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is an Elected Member of the American Law Institute. Since 1999, Professor Cameron has chaired the Annual Scholarship & Awards Gala of the Mexican American Bar Foundation, which has awarded over $500,000 in the form of 193 scholarships to 165 individual students of Latino heritage who are pursuing careers in the law.
Mr. Douglas Barton Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP	Douglas H. Barton concluded in 2002 a five-year term as the firm's managing partner. He has since been practicing full-time in the firm's Labor and Employment Section. Before joining Hanson Bridgett, he served as a field attorney with the NLRB and was chief labor counsel for Stanford University and Stanford Medical Center. He has extensive experience in labor negotiations, arbitrations, NLRB and PERB proceedings, employment litigation, EEO agency proceedings, policy development, and strategic planning. He frequently advises clients concerning labor and employment law issues in mergers and acquisitions. Doug has extensive trial and appellate experience. His recent experience includes cases raising issues of claimed invasion of privacy, disability, gender and race discrimination, sexual and racial harassment, civil rights violations and retaliation. He has over 30 years of experience representing employers in the public and private sectors. Doug taught a clinical seminar in labor arbitration at Stanford Law School between 1981 and 1985. He served a two-year term as Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. For the past 10 years, he has been listed in The Best Lawyers In America, a publication which seeks to recognize through a peer review process the top two percent of the legal profession.
Professor Keith Cunningham-Parmeter Willamette University College of Law	Professor Cunningham-Parmeter is an expert in employment and immigration law. Prior to joining the Willamette faculty in 2006, he worked as a Skadden Fellow with the Oregon Law Center Farmworker Program. His work there focused on the employment rights of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers in Oregon, placing special emphasis on issues related to occupational health and workplace discrimination. Professor Cunningham-Parmeter was lead counsel in a wage and hour class action lawsuit brought on behalf of food processing workers in Oregon, which resulted in the largest settlement for agricultural workers ever in the state. Professor Cunningham-Parmeter graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was the first-place winner of two writing competitions in law school and was selected as a Stanford Law School Public Interest Fellow. During law school, he worked at the East Palo Alto Community Law Project and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, providing focused legal services to immigrant communities and low-wage workers. Upon graduation, Professor Cunningham-Parmeter served for two years as law clerk to Chief Judge Ancer Haggerty of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Professor Cunningham-Parmeter's research focuses primarily on the contingent workforce, as well as the intersection of employment law and immigration law. He teaches Contracts I and II, Labor Law, and Employment Law and Discrimination. He is a member of the state bars of California and Oregon. Willamette law students voted Professor Cunningham-Parmeter Professor of the Year in 2008.
Ms. Olivia Garcia Regional Attorney, National Labor Relations Board	Olivia Garcia is the Regional Attorney for Region 20 (San Francisco) of the National Labor Relations Board. She has worked as an attorney for the NLRB for over 24 years. She is responsible for the supervision of the legal work in NLRB cases arising in Region 20, which services 27 counties in northern California, the state of Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific. The NLRB administers and enforces the National Labor Relations Act. In enforcing this law, the NLRB conducts secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees desire union representation and investigates, prosecutes and remedies unfair labor practices committed by employers and unions. Ms. Garcia began her career with the NLRB as a Field Attorney in 1982. She has worked in various NLRB offices including Region 16 (Fort Worth, TX), Region 31 (Los Angeles, CA), Region 22 (Newark, NJ), the Resident Office in Houston, TX, Region 32 (Oakland, CA) and Region 20 (San Francisco, CA). She was promoted to the position of Regional Attorney in 2005. Ms. Garcia is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Hispanic National Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She is participating in the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law's Government Fellowship Program. An immigrant from Mexico, Ms. Garcia grew up as a migrant farm worker. She received a B.A. degree in journalism in 1977 from the University of Texas at El Paso. In 1980 she received a J.D. degree from Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Breakout Session 3: Past, Present, and Future: High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S. Workforce
Professor Michelle Travis (Moderator) University of San Francisco School of Law	Professor Michelle Travis is a faculty member at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was the Executive Editor of the Stanford Law Review. She clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and then practiced employment law at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Palo Alto. She has taught at Stanford Law School, Santa Clara University School of Law, and Lewis & Clark Law School. Professor Travis publishes and speaks nationally on a variety of employment discrimination topics. She specializes in disability and sex discrimination law and in issues of work/family conflict. Representative publications include: The PDA's Causation Effect: Observations of an Unreasonable Woman, Yale J.L. & Fem. __ (forthcoming 2009); Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans With Disabilities Act Benefits Americans Without Disabilities, Tenn L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2009); Recapturing the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 3 (2005); Equality in the Virtual Workplace, 24 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 283 (2003); Telecommuting: The Escher Stairway of Work/Family Conflict, 55 Maine L. Rev. 26 (2003); Perceived Disabilities, Social Cognition, and "Innocent Mistakes," 55 Vand. L. Rev. 479 (2002); Leveling the Playing Field or Stacking the Deck? The "Unfair Advantage" Critique of Perceived Disability Claims, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 901 (2000). Professor Travis is a former Chair of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law. She teaches Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Work/Family Law, Torts, and Remedies. A full biography is available at: http://www.usfca.edu/law/faculty/fulltime/travism.html.
Mr. Martin Lawler Partner, Lawler & Lawler	Martin J. Lawler is a California immigration law specialist with thirty years experience. He is the author of Professionals: A Matter of Degree, a treatise on business visas. This book, now in its fourth edition, is a leading text on business and H-1B (professional) visas. Professionals was chosen by the San Francisco Law Library as its book of the month. Martin has authored many books, book chapters, and articles. Martin has lectured on various visa matters, including engagements at Harvard University, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Annual and other conferences, the American Law Institute, and the San Francisco Bar Association, among other venues. At the 2006 AILA conference, Martin organized and chaired a unique three-hour workshop on administrative appeals. On his panel were a number of judges and law professors. Martin litigated the landmark H-1B case Hong Kong TV Video Program v. Ilchert, 685 F. Supp. 712 (N.D. Cal. 1988). He is the 1996 recipient of the AILA Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for excellence in immigration litigation. He has also received a number of AILA presidential awards. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America. In 2008, Martin wrote two op-ed articles in the Wall Street Journal and was interviewed on NPR.
Professor Michele Pistone Villanova University School of Law	Professor Pistone is a Professor of Law and Director of the Clinical Program. She teaches the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES). Prior to joining the Villanova faculty in 1999, Professor Pistone was a teaching fellow in the asylum clinic (Center for Applied Legal Studies) at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Pistone received her B.S. cum laude New York University, her J.D. cum laude from St. John's University School of Law, and her LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center. At St. John's, she was a member of the St. John's Law Review. Before joining the Villanova faculty in 1999, she was an associate in the corporate and telecommunications departments at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City and Washington, D.C., the Legal Director of Human Rights First in Washington, D.C., where she emerged as a leading advocate for justice in the immigration law system. In 2006, Professor Pistone was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture at the University of Malta. Professor Pistone is Co-Chair of the ABA Committee on Clinical and Skills Education of ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and member of the Planning Committee for the Joint ABA, AALS and CLEA Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility (CLEPR), and on the Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Law Section. Professor Pistone also serves on the International Advisory Board for the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights. Professor Pistone's research and teaching interests focus on asylum and refugee law, immigration law, migration, clinical education, and Catholic social thought. She is co-author of a groundbreaking book entitled, Stepping Out of the Brain Drain: Applying Catholic Social Teaching in a New Era of Migration (Lexington Books 2007). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters, including The Acceptance of Immigrants: Lessons from the Past and Questions for the Future (with John Hoeffner) in the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights; "In All Things Love": Immigration, Policy-Making, and the Development of Preferential Options for the Poor (with John Hoeffner) in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought; Rethinking Immigration of the Highly-Skilled and Educated in the Post-9/11 World (with John Hoeffner) in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy; Rules Are Made To Be Broken: How the Process of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers (with John Hoeffner) in Georgetown Immigration Law Journal; An Overview of United States Immigration Law, in Marriage of Undocumented Residents (Canon Law Society of America, ed. 2006); The Devil in the Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Teaching Be? in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought; A Times Sensitive Response to Professor Aleinikoff's Detaining Plenary Power, in Georgetown Immigration Law Journal; The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair (with Philip G. Schrag), in Georgetown Immigration Law Journal; Assessing the Proposed Refugee Protection Act: One Step in the Right Direction in Georgetown Immigration Law Journal; and Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: A Proposal for Ending the Unnecessary Detention of Asylum Seekers in Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Professor of Sociology Sharmila Rudrappa The University of Texas at Austin	Sharmila Rudrappa is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests are in immigration, labor, and gender. She is currently working on a manuscript that explores the emergence of a global labor market in Indian information technology workers. Her new research is on infertility tourism in India, with a focus on surrogacy.
Ms. Stephanie Wolf Associate, Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP	Stephanie (Tanger) Wolf practices corporate immigration law in the San Francisco office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP. She handles a variety of business immigration matters, including employment visas for professionals, intracompany transferees, extraordinary ability individuals, and trainees. She also advises employers on I-9 and E-Verify employment eligibility verification compliance and program management. Ms. Wolf received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Vermont.