Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia serving as panelist for event focused on impact of executive policies

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, director of the Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, and clinical professor of law, will serve as a panelist during an upcoming event sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice.

The October 14 event, titled “President Trump’s Executive Policies’ Impact on Freedom of Expression, Health, and Immigration,” has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education (CLE) board for a 90-minute Ethics credit and will take place 5–6:30 p.m. at the Barco Law Building.

President Donald Trump has issued Executive Orders and implemented executive actions at a pace far exceeding that of recent administrations, effecting sweeping changes across key sectors of U.S. law and policy. This panel will examine the legal and public health implications of the recent executive orders and executive policies implemented by President Trump related to freedom of expression, health, and immigration. Learn more here.

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.