Tania N. Valdez is an Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her research highlights the inadequacies of protections for noncitizens in removal proceedings, particularly in the current era of aggressive immigration enforcement. Professor Valdez also studies the intersection of immigration and disability. Her work has been published by the Notre Dame Law Review and the Washington University Law Review, with her most recent article forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review.
Before joining the GW Law faculty, Professor Valdez served as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Immigration Law and Policy Clinic (ILPC) at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she supervised law students appearing before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and the immigration agencies. She began her legal career as a clinical instructor in the Immigration Unit at Berkeley Law’s East Bay Community Law Center, representing immigrants living with HIV/AIDS and through a Medical-Legal Partnership with Children’s Hospital Oakland. Professor Valdez also served as a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, clerked for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and litigated civil rights cases in federal and state courts at a boutique law firm in Denver, Colorado.
