Lindsay Nash is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law. She teaches in the Immigration Justice Clinic. Previously, she was a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, where she focused on impact litigation related to immigration detention and border enforcement, and an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow at the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic, where she worked on issues at the intersection of criminal and immigration law and helped establish the nation’s first system of institutionally-provided counsel for detained noncitizens facing deportation. While at the ACLU, Lindsay taught an immigration law field clinic as an adjunct professor at Cardozo.

Nash graduated from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Yale Law Journal and received awards for her work in her law school clinic and in academic scholarship.  Following graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle, District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  Nash is a member of the Study Group on Immigrant Representation. Her scholarship explores immigration enforcement and access to justice issues.

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Universal Representation

87 FORDHAM L. REV. 503 (2018)

Pardoning Immigrants

93 N.Y.U. L. REV. 58 (2018) (with Peter L. Markowitz)

Constitutional Venue

66 FLA. L. REV. 1153 (2014) (with Peter L. Markowitz)

Considering the Scope of Advisal Duties Under Padilla

33 CARDOZO L. REV. 549 (2011)

Accessing Justice: The Availability and Adequacy of Counsel in Removal Proceedings

(New York Immigrant Representation Study Report: Part I), 33 CARDOZO L. REV. 357 (2011) (with others)

Expression by Ordinance: Preemption and Proxy in Local Legislation

25 GEO. IMM. L. J. 243 (2011)

Deportation Arrest Warrants

73 Stan. L. Rev. 433 (2021)

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