Congratulations to members of the class of 2022 who have earned some of the nation’s most prestigious public interest post-graduate fellowships. They will provide critical legal assistance and advocacy to underrepresented clients and communities across the country.
“It’s a consensus view among legal scholars and lawyers that the 14th Amendment … prevents a president — or Congress — from eliminating birthright citizenship,” Professor Dan Urman tells Northeastern Global News .
“I think people under guardianship should have more information and more ability to have a say in the process and who is the guardian,” Professor Margo Lindauer tells Marketplace.
Andra Lehotay de León ’23 has been selected to join the inaugural class of the Equal Justice Works Disaster Resilience Program Student Fellows.
“A Trump executive order restricting birthright citizenship would merely be the latest in a long and ugly history of failed attempts to persuade the Supreme Court to ignore the sweeping breadth of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause,” writes Professor Rachel Rosenbloom in an op-ed for TIME.
Professor Rachel Rosenbloom, an immigration policy expert, offers insight in TIME’s coverage of a Supreme Court case with major implications for birthright citizenship and the authority of lower courts.
“Some parts of the president’s agenda dovetail with trends in Supreme Court jurisprudence that were already underway,” Professor Rachel Rosenbloom tells Bloomberg Law. “But stripping Americans of birthright citizenship does not fall into that category.”
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome an exceptional group of new faculty to our community.