Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project

William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

Lee Gelernt, who will be visiting Texas Law as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, will speak in the Eidman Courtroom.

Eidman Courtroom - University of Texas at Austin School of Law

<h3>Gelernt will give a talk entitled “Biden on Immigration: Better than Trump?” Lunch will be provided in the Jamail Pavilion after his talk. Please RSVP to reserve a lunch.</h3>This event has been accredited by the State Bar of Texas for 1.00 hour of CLE credit.About Lee Gelernt:Gelernt has worked at the ACLU’s national office in New York since 1992 and has litigated civil rights cases in courts across the country and at every level, including the U.S. Supreme Court. As an example, Gelernt successfully argued a national class action challenge to the Trump Administration’s practice of separating immigrant families at the border. In 2018, a federal court issued an injunction in Ms. L. v. ICE holding the practice unconstitutional and requiring the Administration to reunite the thousands of separated families. Find his complete biography <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/lee-gelernt-biography/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.About the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence: Gelernt’s visit as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence is supported by a generous gift from the G. Rollie White Trust. The program brings outstanding legal scholars, practitioners and advocates from the field of public service to Texas Law to foster discussion of issues related to public interest law, to raise the profile of lawyers working in this area, and to encourage students to view public service as an honored and expected part of every legal career. Gelernt is Texas Law’s ninth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.This event has been accredited by the State Bar of Texas for 1.00 hour of CLE credit.

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