Angela Marie Lloyd

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Before joining Ohio State, Professor Lloyd worked at Covenant House New York and Covenant House New Jersey where she served as a senior staff attorney and then as director of the Youth Advocacy Center and Medical Office.

In 1995, she founded an immigration legal services office for low-income Africans in Los Angeles through a grant from the Columbia Law School Public Interest Law Foundation. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for the Honorable Warren G. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Awards/Achievements:

• Ford Foundation Fellowship for Study in International Public Law
• Columbia Journal of Transnational Law

Presentations:

• Special Immigrant Juveniles and Their Federal Privacy Rights at On Their Own: Protecting the Rights of Immigrant Children Third Annual Conference on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Chicago, IL, April 3-5, 2008.
• Advanced Special Immigrant Juvenile Issues at On Their Own: Protecting the Rights of Immigrant Children Second Annual Conference on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Miami, FL, May 17-19, 2007.
• Challenging Assumptions about Clinical Teaching on Race, Culture, Gender and Justice, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, New Orleans, LA, May 2-6, 2007.
• Obtaining Special Immigrant Juvenile Status at On Their Own: Protecting the Rights of Immigrant Children Binational Conference on Procedures, Protections & Due Process for Unaccompanied Children, El Paso, TX, April 20-22, 2006.
• Law and Policy Affecting Immigrant and Refugee Children, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 3-7, 2006. Criminalizing Childhood, Annual Law & Society Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2-5, 2005.
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution, at Advanced Child Protection Mediation Training Program, sponsored by the Ohio Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Section, April 28-29, 2004.
• Abused, Abandoned and Neglected Undocumented Children-How Can They Obtain Lawful Status? at Representing Immigrant Children and Challenging Unlawful Arrests, sponsored by the Center for Law & Border Studies & the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Texas, University of Texas at El Paso, February 20-22, 2002.
• The New Jersey Homeless Youth Act; Emancipation and the Medical Rights of Minors, at Legal Issues for New Jersey’s Homeless and Aging Out Youth, sponsored by the Garden State Coalition and the New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services, Newark, NJ, December 2001.
• Working with Undocumented Foster Children and Homeless Youth; How Immigration Law Creates Opportunities and Barriers for the Aging-Out Population at Understanding the NJ Homeless Youth Act and Working with Aging Out Adolescents, sponsored by the Garden State Coalition and the New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services, Newark, NJ, January 13, 2000.

Publications:

• Regulating Consent: Protecting Undocumented Immigrant Children from Their (Evil) Step-Uncle Sam, Or How to Ameliorate the Impact of the 1997Amendments to the SIJ Law, 15 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 237 (2006).
• Special Immigrant Juvenile Training Manual, Covenant House Youth Advocacy Center, 2001.
• Note, The Southern Sudan: A Compelling Case for Secession, 32 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 419 (1994).
• The African Woman's Crisis, IX Praxis: A Journal of Development Studies 16 (1992).