Human Rights Workshop: Lee Gelernt, ACLU Attorney, “Immigration Under Trump I and II”

Lunch Provided / RSVP REQUIRED⁵

Lee Gelernt⁶ is a lawyer at the ACLU's national office and is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading public interest advocates. He has argued dozens of groundbreaking civil rights cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court and ten federal Courts of Appeals, and has testified before both the U.S. Senate and House. During Trump I, he argued many of the country’s  highest profile cases, including a successful challenge to the family separation policy. Lee’s work on this case is featured, among numerous other places, in the  documentary film “The Fight” (which followed him for several years of the case), a July 2018 New York Times Magazine cover story⁷ about the ACLU, and the recent documentary "Separated." 

Lee also successfully argued challenges to the use of the Title 42 public health laws to summarily expel asylum seekers, and to the Trump Administration’s first and second asylum bans. Lee has won numerous awards for his work and has been recognized as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the country in any field. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and has also taught at Yale Law School.

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