Patrick J. Glen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Patrick Glen is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law for the 2024-25 academic year, where his teaching will focus on research, writing, and advanced advocacy.

As a scholar, Professor Glen’s main area of expertise and scholarship is immigration law, along with the many areas intersecting with that focus, including administrative law, criminal law, health law, and international law. He is an expert on the Executive Branch’s authority in this area, including the Attorney General’s role in policy and adjudication under the immigration laws. His article in the Iowa Law Review on the Attorney’s General adjudicatory authority in immigration matters, co-authored with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was the subject of an online symposium upon publication, while his more recent article in the Hofstra Law Review provided a blueprint for how the authority could be used in the Biden administration. Other articles on an array of subjects, including the consideration of family in immigration matters, issues of administrative finality and judicial review, deference to immigration adjudication, and asylum issues, have appeared in a variety of journals at Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, Berkeley, and Duke University, among others.

Outside Dickinson Law, Professor Glen currently teaches a seminar on immigration law at Georgetown University Law Center, focused on the roles that the various branches play in the development and implementation of immigration law and policy. As a practicing attorney, his focus is on appellate litigation in immigration matters. He has argued before the Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit federal courts of appeals, and has filed briefs in every federal appellate court. Additionally, he has handled seven merits cases before the United States Supreme Court, in collaboration with the Solicitor General’s Office, as well as nearly a dozen en banc cases in the courts of appeals.

Professor Glen received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Dickinson College, his law degree from Ohio Northern University, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, he joined the United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation.