Immigration Issues Facing LGBTI Community

Topics:
  • LGBT Issues

Join the Emory International Law Review, Emory Immigration Law Society, and Emory OUTLaw as they partner to organize a symposium focused on LGBTI issues and immigration.


Schedule of Events:

  • Breakfast, 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  • Opening Remarks, 9:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  • Panel I, 9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

LGBTI Country of Origin Persecution and Its Effects on Immigration
Shana Tabak, Professor of Law, Georgia State Univeristy
Michael Turton, Partner, Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton

  • Panel II, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Avenues of Protection in the US for LGBTI Immigrants
Tracie Klinke, Attorney, Klinke Immigration
Kerry McGrath, Attorney, Law Office of Kerry E. McGrath
Polly Price, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

  • Closing Remarks, 12:00 p.m.-12:10 p.m.

Timothy Holbrook, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Lunch will be provided following the closing remarks.

IAN Partners

  • pro bono net
  • american immigration lawyers association
  • national immigration law center
  • unidos us
  • immigration legal resource center
  • immigration legal resource center
  • american immigration council
  • american civil liberties union
  • american immigration council
  • national immigration project
  • the advocates for human rights
  • lutheran immigration and refugee service

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