November 15, 2011: Discussion with Judge Robert Katzmann on Immigrant Justice

Roosevelt House hosted a conversation with Robert A. Katzmann, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Roosevelt House Advisory Board member, on immigration reform.  His talk is entitled Immigrant Justice: A Judge’s Perspective.

Judge Robert A. Katzmann was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1999 by President Clinton. At the time of his appointment, he was Walsh Professor of Government, Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a Fellow of the Governmental Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, and president of the Governance Institute (a non-profit organization concerned with the nexus between law, institutions and policy).A lawyer and political scientist by training, Judge Katzmann did his undergraduate studies at Columbia College, holds A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in government from Harvard University, and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for Judge Hugh H. Bownes and held a number of positions at the Brookings Institution Governmental Studies Program, including senior fellow and acting program director.His publications include Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Anti-Trust Policy; Institutional Disability: The Saga of Transportation Policy for the Disabled; and Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life (editor and contributing author). He has written articles on a variety of topics including regulation, judicial-congressional relations, disability, the administrative process, court reform and the war powers resolution.