Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia to speak on scholarship at AALS New Teachers Workshop

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA—On June 6, 2026, Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will join Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center; Michele Goodwin, Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown University Law Center; and Ezra Rosser, professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law, at the AALS New Teachers Workshop in Washington, D.C.

In the session titled "Designing Your Research Agenda and Building a Scholarly Community/Network + Distributing Your Ideas and Engaged Scholarship and Advocacy," these panelists will share their personal experiences and identify tools for identifying and building a body of scholarship as a law professor.

The Workshop for New Law Teachers is an opportunity for faculty who have been teaching for three years or less to build networks, establish mentors, and share their experiences, questions, and concerns as new academics with

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.