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Panel:
Margaret Stock is a partner at Cascadia Cross-Border Law Group, LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. She focuses her practice on immigration and citizenship law. Margaret is a nationally known expert on immigration and national security laws, and has testified regularly before Congressional committees on immigration, homeland security, and military matters. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police, U.S. Army Reserve, Margaret has extensive experience with U.S. military issues. She has also worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska. Margaret has served on the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section and is a former member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. In 2013, she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (“genius grant” recipient) by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Margaret received her law degree, bachelor's degree in government, and Master's in public administration from Harvard University and holds a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Army War College.
Sabrineh ("Sabi") Ardalan is director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. At the clinic, Sabi supervises and trains law students working on applications for asylum and other humanitarian protections, as well as appellate litigation and policy advocacy. She has authored briefs submitted to the Board of Immigration Appeals, as well as to the federal district courts, circuit courts of appeal, and U.S. Supreme Court on cutting edge issues in U.S. asylum law.
Prior to her work with the clinic, Sabi clerked for Hon. Michael A. Chagares of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Hon. Raymond J. Dearie, district judge for the Eastern District of New York. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in history and international studies from Yale College.
Nahal Kazemi (Moderator) is an assistant professor of law at Chapman University's Fowler School of law, where she teaches national security law and torts. She was previously a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and taught the Columbia Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic while working as an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Nahal received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. in government from Harvard College.
This virtual event is sponsored by the HLS Associations of Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Northern California.