Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia speaks at Wayne Law Review Symposium

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA—Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia recently participated in "Oligarchy and the Rule of Law: Examining the Intersection of Power, Wealth, and Justice," a symposium sponsored by the Wayne Law Review.

The event examined how concentrated economic and political power shapes democratic institutions, fundamental rights, and the rule of law.

Wadhia spoke on the panel titled “Migration and Immigrant Justice,” presenting current research on discretion and immigration enforcement. The other speakers on the panel were University of Michigan Law School's Margo Schlanger and Wayne State University Law School's Sabrina Balgamwalla. Wayne State University Law School's Jonathan Weinberg will moderate the panel.

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.