Alma Magaña is the Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Magaña has been an attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York City where she served as a staff attorney in criminal defense practice, a criminal immigration specialist in the immigration law unit, and a staff attorney on the parole revocation defense unit. She developed and implemented new strategies for challenging bail determinations in pre-trial detention, and instructed attorneys in strategies to eliminate unconstitutional detentions.