Stephen H. Legomsky

Courses Taught

Immigration Law
Criminal Law
Torts
International Human Rights
International Criminal Law
International Legal Process

Profile

Professor Stephen H. Legomsky is an authority on U.S., comparative, and international immigration, refugee, and citizenship law and policy. His latest book, Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy (co-authored starting with the current fifth edition), has been the required text at 172 law schools since its inception. Professor Legomsky is the founding director of the law school’s Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. He has won several awards, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s annual award, given to one immigration law professor in the United States, and Washington University’s Arthur Holly Compton Award, given annually to one university faculty member for career accomplishments. Professor Legomsky has been appointed to visiting positions at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and other universities in the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, Suriname, Singapore, Portugal, and Israel. A member of the American Law Institute, he founded and chaired the Immigration Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has testified before Congress on several occasions and has served as a consultant to the transition teams of Presidents Clinton and Obama, to the first President Bush’s Commissioner of Immigration, to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and to several foreign governments, on immigration and refugee policies. A former actuary, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then headed a division of the Ninth Circuit central legal staff in San Francisco.