Emily Brown
Education
- JD Yale Law School
- BA Swarthmore College
Biography
Emily Brown directs the Immigration Clinic, where she supervises students representing immigrants in their applications for humanitarian relief, with a focus on immigrants in removal (deportation) proceedings.
Prior to joining Ohio State, Professor Brown was a Skadden Fellow and then a senior attorney at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) in the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights Practice Group. She represented individual clients and community organizations in immigration and civil-rights matters before federal courts and administrative agencies. She clerked for the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Algenon L. Marbley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Professor Brown earned her JD from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Prior to law school, Professor Brown worked for several years as a union organizer. She earned her BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College.