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June 5-7, 2026

Registration fee if registering on or before May 1, 2026: $275
Registration fee starting on May 2, 2026: $325
We cannot refund the registration fee after May 15 due to our obligations to vendors.

Program Highlights

Keynote Discussion on Friday (June 5, 2026) will feature a live recording of the Podcast,
Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Alex Aleinikoff, Executive Dean, NSSR, and University Professor, The New School for Social Research
  • Paulina Arnold, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
  • Ahilan Arulanantham, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
  • Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Fellow and Director of the MPI office, NYU School of Law
  • Ingrid Eagly, Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director of the Criminal Law & Policy Consortium, UCLA School of Law
  • Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and Director of Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law
  • Pedro Gerson, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • Nicole Hallett, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, University of Chicago Law School
  • Daniel HarawaProfessor of Law, NYU School of Law
  • Kit Johnson, Hugh Roff Professor of Law, Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma Law School
  • Anil Kalhan, Professor of Law, Drexel University Kline School of Law
  • Erika Lee, Bae Family Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Harvard University 
  • H. Marissa Montes, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, Loyola Law School
  • Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Karen Musalo, Professor and Chair in International Law, Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of Law

Preliminary Schedule

     Friday, June 5

  • Registration & Coffee – 9:30-10:30
  • Messaging & Policy – 10:30-11:45
  • Lunch Panel – 11:45-1:00
  • Teaching & Pedagogy – 1:10-2:25
  • Keynote – 2:50-4:05
  • Plenary I – 4:15-5:30
  • Reception & Dinner – 6:00-9:00
     Saturday, June 6

  • Breakfast – 8:00-9:00
  • Plenary II – 9:00-10:15
  • WIPs I – 10:30-12:00
  • Lunch Panel – 12:15-1:15
  • Breakout Sessions – 1:30-2:45
  • WIPs II – 3:00-4:30
  • Reception – 5:00-6:30
  • Dinner on your own
     Sunday, June 7

  • Breakfast – 8:30-9:30
  • WIPs III – 9:30-11:00
  • Closing Remarks – 11:15-11:30

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CONTACT

For more information about logistics, please contact immprof conference coordinator Becky Chapman.

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