Immigration Law Section: 2021 Asylum & Immigration Law Conference

6th Annual New York
Asylum & Immigration Law Conference

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Detailed Agenda & Presenters Below!

Friday, February 5, 2021

9:00 – 9:15 AM | Welcoming Speech 

Speaker: Lenni Benson  

Morning – Basic Track

9:15 – 10:45 AM | Basic Asylum/ Withholding/ CAT

• Moderator/Presenter: Dr. Alicia Triche, Triche Immigration Appeals

• Jacqueline Stabnow, Supervising Attorney, Safe Passage Project
• Lauren Wyatt, Catholic Charities Community Services 
• Lauren Anselowitz, Harlan Yorke & Associates
  

10:45 – 11 AM | BREAK

11 AM – 12:30 PM  | Basic Bars to Asylum 

• Moderator: Elizabeth Gibson, NYLAG  
• Elizabeth Gibson, NYLAG 
• Murat Berdyev, Berdyev Law, P.C.
• Raymond G. Lahoud, Chair of Immigration Law Practice Group, Norris McLaughlin,
  P.A.

12:30 – 2 PM | Plenary Lunch – The Big Picture: International Human Rights Law and the United States

• Moderator: Alexandra Rizio, Safe Passage Project 
• Professor Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto
• Betsy Fisher, IRAP 
• Alice Farmer, UNHCR

Afternoon – Advanced Track

2:15 PM-3:45 PM  | Advanced Evolving Theories of Social Group and Other Hot Topics in Protection

• Moderator/Speaker: Heather Axford, CALA 
• Hon. Jeffrey Chase (retired) 
• Anwen Hughes, Human Rights First 
• Lori Adams

3:45-5:30 PM | Advanced Motions to Reopen and Responding to Expedited Forms of Removal 

• Moderator: Jodi Ziesemer, NYLAG 
• Jackie Pearce, Make the Road New York 
• Maura Finn, Southern Poverty Law Center
• H. Raymond Fasano, Youman, Madeo & Fasano, LLP 

5:30-6:30 PM | Updates on Asylum Regulation Litigation

• Blaine Bookey, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
• Victoria Neilson, Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC)

Please join us for an end-of-day networking opportunity from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 6, 2021

9:00 AM | Welcoming Speech

• Amy Gell, Chair of SDNY-Fed. Bar Assoc. 
• Mark Schmueli, Chair of ILS-Fed. Bar. Assoc. 

 9:15 – 10:45 AM | Best Practices and Ethics: Representing Children in Asylum Claims

• Moderator: Desiree C. Hernandez, Safe Passage Project
• Alexander Holtzman, Hofstra Deportation Defense Clinic
• Harold Solis, Make the Road New York

10:45 – 11 AM | BREAK

11 AM – 12:30 PM | Best Practices: Investigating and Presenting a Case
Remotely

• Moderator: Helen Parsonage, Elliot Morgan Parsonage, PLLC
• Amelia Wilson, Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School 
• Liz Willis, Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project
• Susan Roy, Law Office of Susan G. Roy, LLC

12:45 – 2 PM | Plenary Lunch: Toward an Independent Immigration Court  

• Kate Melloy Goettel, AIC
• Danny Alicea, Litigation Supervisor, Center for Family Representation/NYC Bar
  Association
• Elizabeth Stevens, of counsel, Poarch Thompson Law

2 PM | Closing Remarks 

Speakers: Professor Lenni Benson; Alexandra Rizio and Desiree C. Hernandez, Safe Passage Project