Brendan Brown Lecture to be Held October 7

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is excited to announce the annual Brendan Brown Lecture, which will be held on Tuesday, October 7. This year’s lecture will begin at 6 pm in room 308 in the College of Law Building. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. 

This year’s guest lecturer is Professor Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and one of the nation's foremost thinkers and litigators on immigrants' rights issues. He is currently litigating several cases challenging the Trump administration's revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over one million people.

During his lecture, titled “Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering,” Professor Arulanantham will describe how he came to this work, the role that race discrimination has played in immigration and refugee policy, and how that history continues to play out in the current struggle over the TPS program. 

The Brendan Brown lectures were established in 1986 through the generosity of Brendan Francis Brown, a former College of Law faculty member who highly valued scholarly discourse and the natural law, to sponsor a major annual lecture, colloquia, and other scholarly activities. Brown served as the sixth dean of the law school at The Catholic University from 1949-1954 and joined the faculty at Loyola in 1954. He retired two decades later, after a long and distinguished career as a prolific scholar and teacher, described by some as a "most exciting classroom performer," and ardent supporter of moot court activities, having coached the 1974 Loyola National Moot Court Team.