Geoffrey Heeren

Geoffrey Heeren teaches Immigration Law and Policy and directs the Immigration Litigation and Appellate Clinic at the University of Idaho College of Law. His clinic students represent asylum seekers and immigrant survivors of torture, trafficking, crimes, and child abuse, abandonment, and neglect. They handle cases in the Immigration Court, before administrative agencies, and in state and federal courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Geoffrey's scholarship focuses on the historical rights of immigrants and has appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, among other journals. Before joining the University of Idaho, he was a professor at Valparaiso University Law School, where he founded and directed the Immigration Law Clinic. Previously, he was a clinical teaching fellow in the asylum clinic at Georgetown Law. He first practiced immigration law at Legal Aid Chicago, where he handled direct representation of immigrants in detention, federal appellate work, and affirmative civil rights litigation. While working as a legal aid attorney in Chicago, he also taught asylum law as a lecturer at the University of Chicago.