Christina Rodriguez to give final Humanities on the Edge lecture for 2014-15

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April 13, 2015

This Thursday, Humanities on the Edge will feature Cristina Rodriguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law. Her lecture, "Immigration Reform and the Political Value of Manufactured Crisis," will be held Thursday, April 16 at 5:30pm in the Sheldon Museum of Art. It is the final Humanities on the Edge lecture of the 2014-15 "States of Exception" series of lectures.

Rodríguez, whose visit is cosponsored by the Institute for Ethnic Studies, is, and has been widely reported in the media (including the New York Times), the first Latina on Yale Law School’s tenured faculty. Prior to her arrival at Yale, she has been Professor of Law at NYU and a visiting professor at Harvard Law. She has also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice between 2011-2013. With a law degree from Yale Law, as well as a B.A. and M.A. in History from, respectively, Yale College and Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, Rodríguez has an extensive record of scholarly publications that include her co-authored book, Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, and over 30 book chapters, articles, essays, and policy papers; she has also contributed opinion pieces to, among other venues, CNN and the New York Times. An expert on the effects of immigration on society and culture, as well as the legal and political strategies societies adopt to absorb immigrant populations, Rodríguez clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is currently the Pierre Genest Memorial Global Visiting Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.