Title: The Great Regression: Immigration Law in Crisis
Date and Time: Friday, March 27, 2026, from 9am – 4:15pm
Location: John and Frances Angelos Law Center, 1401 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Summary: The University of Baltimore Law Review invites you to our annual Spring symposium. This year, we are addressing the second Trump Administration’s unprecedented immigration policy changes, as well as legal challenges to those policies. The Symposium will consist of three panels of experts from across the country, and will consider novel frontiers in immigration enforcement, mass deportation, struggles over citizenship , and calls to restore the legal guardrails in the immigration law enforcement system all with the goal of fostering a lively discussion about the ongoing battle to maintain immigration rights within the United States of America. The event will take place on Friday, March 27, 2026, and is open to the public. Register here.
Speakers & Panelists:
Check-in (8:00 AM – 9:00 AM)
Opening Remarks (9:00 AM – 9:25 AM)
- Dean LaVonda N. Reed, J.D., University of Baltimore School of Law
Panel 1: Novel Frontiers of Immigration Enforcement (9:30 AM – 10:45 AM)
- Jose Anderson — Dean Joseph Curtis Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, presenting A Conjecture on the Federal Executive Power to Police a City: Lessons from the Founding
- Noah Chauvin — Associate Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, presenting Can States Force ICE to Take Off the Masks?
- Kit Johnson — Hugh Roff Professor at Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, presenting Campus Crackdown: How Trump’s Immigration Policies Imperil U.S. Universities
- Andrew Moore & Aman McLeod — Professors of Law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, presenting Deporting Dissent: The First Amendment Rights of Nonimmigrants
Break (10:45 AM – 11:00 AM)
Panel 2: Mass Deportation and the Struggle for Citizenship (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM)
- Angela Howat — Associate Attorney, Cozen O’Connor, presenting Birthright Citizenship: Instituting a Permanent Second Class
- Sabrina Rivera — Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Western State College of Law, presenting Denied Access: Counsel in an Immigration Legal System Designed to Deport
- Nicholas Stamates — Tribal Bar Connection/Tribal Bar Association, CEO, presenting Bridging the Gap: Can Indian Tribes Provide the Lawyers Needed to Represent Those Appearing Before Immigration Courts?
- Virgil Wiebe — Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law, presenting Naturalization is the New Asylum
Luncheon & Keynote Address (12:15 PM – 1:45 PM)
Panel 3: Restoring Legal Guardrails in Immigration Enforcement (1:45 PM – 3:00 PM)
- Heather Scavone, Fmr. Director, Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, Elon University School of Law, presenting Civil Immigration as a Surveillance Architecture: USCIS and the Expansion of Federal Biometric Authority
- Jill Family — Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Widener University Commonwealth Law School, presenting A Race Backwards? Administrative Law’s Path Towards Immigration Law
- Nicolas Garon — J.D. Candidate, Southern University Law Center, presenting Constructive Exile and Consular Power: The Case for Domestic Immigration Adjudication
- Hon. David Koelsch — Fmr. Immigration Judge, Executive Office of Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice, presenting Rising from the Ashes: Building a Just and Effective Humanitarian Protection System
Reception (3:00 PM – 4:15 PM)
- Music provided by the Latin American Law Student Association (LALSA)
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