I’ve been an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School since 2012. I created a course called “Immigration Workshop: Deportation Defense,” and I’ve really enjoyed teaching it.
One of the reasons I created the course was that I wanted to share my knowledge and experience and help make better immigration lawyers. I’m particularly proud that some of my former students are now supervisors at the Legal Aid Society and Catholic Charities.
Unfortunately, practicing immigration law has gotten too crazy under the Trump administration. For years, I was able to maintain my practice and teach. However, I can no longer do both, and I have to focus on my practice.
There have been so many changes in immigration law and policy under the Trump administration that it has become difficult to keep up. The Board of Immigration Appeals has been issuing precedent decisions on an almost daily basis. Keeping my course materials and syllabus current with all of the changes to deportation defense would take more time than I have.
So, after 14 years of teaching at Brooklyn Law School, I’ve decided to retire from teaching.
I’m going to miss teaching. But I hope that the lawyers who took my course will carry what they learned into their own practices and continue helping immigrants who need good lawyers.