Geoffrey Heeren

Geoffrey Heeren is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Immigration Litigation and Appellate Clinic. Before joining the University of Idaho, he was a professor at Valparaiso University Law School, where he founded and directed the Immigration Law Clinic—supervising students who represented clients in immigration court and argued circuit court appeals. Previously, he was a clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law. He first practiced immigration law at Legal Aid Chicago, where he handled direct representation of immigrants in detention, federal appellate work, and affirmative civil rights litigation. While working as a legal aid attorney in Chicago, he also taught asylum law as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. He received his JD from New York University School of Law.

• Immigration Law and Slavery: Rethinking the Migration or Importation Clause, 2023 Wis. L. Rev. 1125 (2023)
• Work and Employment for DACA Recipients, 39 Yale J. Reg. Bulletin (2021)
• Distancing Refugees, 97 Denver Univ. L. Rev. 761 (2020)
• Zealous Administration: the Deportation Bureaucracy (co-authored with Robert Knowles), 72 Rutgers Univ. L. Rev. 101 (2020)
• Crimmigration in Gangland: Race, Crime, and Removal During the Prohibition Era, 16 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 65 (2018)
• The Immigrant Right to Work, 31 Georg. Imm. L. J. 243 (2017)
• The Status of Nonstatus, 64 Am. U. L. Rev. 1115 (2015)
• Shattering the One-Way Mirror: Discovery in Immigration Court, 79 Brook. L. Rev. 1569 (2014), reprinted in 19-15 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 01 (2014)
• Persons Who Are Not the People: The Changing Rights of Immigrants in the United States, 44 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 367 (2013)
• Illegal Aid: Legal Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 33 Card. L. Rev. 619 (2011)
• Pulling Teeth: the State of Mandatory Immigration Detention, 45 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 601 (2010)
• Unfair Evictions: Where Landlord-Tenant and Fair Housing Law Intersect, 37 Clearinghouse Rev. 418 (Nov.-Dec. 2003)