Kristina Campbell Assistant Professor of Law Kristina Campbell is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. Prior to joining the UDC faculty in 2010, Kristina was a Visiting Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she taught courses in Immigration Law, Immigration Reform and Policy, and Employment Discrimination. Kristina is a career public interest attorney, specializing in civil litigation on behalf of immigrants and low-wage workers. Kristina began her career in 2002 as a Staff Attorney with the statewide farmworker program of the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 2004 she joined the statewide farmworker program at Community Legal Services in Phoenix, Arizona as a Staff Attorney. From 2006 to 2009, Kristina was a Staff Attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in Los Angeles, California, where she engaged in impact immigrants’ rights litigation in Arizona and California.

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Kristina’s litigation, teaching, and research interests focus on the intersection of immigration, employment, and constitutional law, with a special emphasis on the rights of noncitizens and the conflict between state and federal immigration regulations. She has been invited to speak across the country and in Mexico on the subject of immigrants’ rights. Kristina received her Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary’s College (Indiana) cum laude and her Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Kristina is proficient in Spanish and is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the State Bar of Arizona (inactive), and the State Bar of California.

Publications

(Un)Reasonable Suspicion: Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement After Arizona v. United States, 3 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol'y (forthcoming 2013) (invited article)

Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime? The Politics of Immigration Enforcement and the Provision of Sanctuary, 63 Syracuse L Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2013)

The Road to SB 1070: How Arizona Became Ground Zero for the Immigrants’ Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for Latino Civil Rights in America, 14 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 1 (2011)

The High Cost of Free Speech: Anti-Solicitation Ordinances, Day Laborers, and the Impact of 'Backdoor' Local Immigration Regulations, 25 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 1 (2010)

Imagining a More Humane Immigration Policy in the Age of Obama: The Use of Plenary Power to Halt the State Balkanization of Immigration Regulation, 29 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 415 (2010)

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: A Legal, Policy, and Litigation Analysis, 84 Den. U.L.R. 1041 (2007)

Note, Blurring the Lines of the Danger Zone: The Impact of Kendra’s Law on the Rights of the Nonviolent Mentally Ill, 16 Notre Dame J.L., Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 173 (2002)

Works in Progress

Rising Arizona: The Legacy of the Jim Crow Southwest on Modern Immigration Law and Policy After 100 Years of Statehood (work in progress)

Remember the Wobblies: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 and Arizona's Modern Anti-Union Bills (work in progress)

Blood Money: The White Supremacist Roots of Anti-Immigrant Laws (work in progress)