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College of Law

Physical Address:
Menard 101
711 S. Rayburn Drive

Mailing Address:
College of Law
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2321
Moscow, ID 83844-2321

Main Office: 208-885-2255
Admissions: 208-885-2300
Legal Clinic: 208-885-6541
Office of the Dean: 208-364-4620

Fax: 208-885-5709

Email: uilaw@uidaho.edu

Physical Address:
501 W Front St,
Boise, ID 83702

Mailing Address:
501 W Front St,
Boise, ID 83702

Phone: 208-885-2255

Fax: 208-334-2176

Email: uilaw@uidaho.edu

Geoffrey Heeren

Geoffrey Heeren

Professor of Law, Director of the Immigration Litigation and Appellate Clinic

Office

Menard 12

Phone

208-885-6110

Mailing Address

College of Law
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2321
Moscow, ID 83844-2321

Location: Moscow

Courses Taught: Immigration Litigation and Appellate Clinic and Immigration Law

  • B.A., University of Chicago, American History
  • J.D., New York University School of Law
  • LL.M., Georgetown Law (with distinction in clinical education)

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)

College of Law

Physical Address:
Menard 101
711 S. Rayburn Drive

Mailing Address:
College of Law
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2321
Moscow, ID 83844-2321

Main Office: 208-885-2255
Admissions: 208-885-2300
Legal Clinic: 208-885-6541
Office of the Dean: 208-364-4620

Fax: 208-885-5709

Email: uilaw@uidaho.edu

Physical Address:
501 W Front St,
Boise, ID 83702

Mailing Address:
501 W Front St,
Boise, ID 83702

Phone: 208-885-2255

Fax: 208-334-2176

Email: uilaw@uidaho.edu