Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia presents on immigration panel at Law and Society Conference

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA—On May 30, Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will present on a panel titled "When Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Valor" at the annual Law and Society Conference in San Francisco. The Law and Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts.

Wadhia will discuss the rise and fall of discretion focused on the historical landscape and current policy shifts around prosecutorial discretion, and examining when discretion has been abused. Prosecutorial discretion is a primary area of her research and the topic of her first book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion (NYU Press 2015).

At the annual Law and Society Conference, Professor Wadhia will be joined by fellow presenters Juliet Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School; Sabrina Balgamwalla, Wayne State Law School; and Spojmie Nasiri, Law Office of Spojmie Nasiri, PC.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is a nationally respected immigration scholar, law professor, author, and attorney. She joined Penn State Dickinson Law as a Clinical Professor of Law in 2008 and was named Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar in 2013.

Wadhia's scholarship has focused on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and policy and the intersection of immigration, race, and national security. She is the author of two award-winning academic press books by New York University Press and co-author of a textbook on Immigration & Nationality Law by Carolina Academic Press.