Emily Brown, BA, J.D.

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. Her scholarship recently was published in the Buffalo Law Review, and she frequently contributes her expertise to local media outlets including The Columbus Dispatch and WOSU.

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. Professor Brown also 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 serves on the board of Policy Matters Ohio and is active in both the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.