In 2014, The University of Texas at El Paso will celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1914 as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy. Our Centennial offers not only an occasion to celebrate our distinguished history, but also a window through which we can begin contemplating our bright future as the first national research university with a 21st century student demographic. The Centennial Lecture Series invites noteworthy speakers to the UTEP campus to share their perspectives on a broad range of contemporary issues that are likely to impact our society, culture, and lives in the years ahead. We invite you to join us in exploring important and timely topics and expanding our thinking about how they may help shape UTEP’s next 100 years.
President Diana Natalicio
The Law School Preparation Institute
and
The Center for Law and Human Behavior
cordially invite you to attend a UTEP Centennial Lecture
“Deportation and its Discontents: Reflections on a Century of Immigration Law”
Allison Brownell Tirres
Assistant Professor of Law
DePaul University College of Law
Monday, February 3, 2014
11:45 a.m.
El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center
UTEP Campus
Professor Tirres joined the DePaul University College of Law faculty in 2007.
She received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Princeton University
in 1996 and then studied for a year in Mexico City at the Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. In 2004, Professor Tirres received her J.D.
from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor and treasurer of the
Harvard Law Review. In 2008, she received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard
University. She was the first Cleary, Gottlieb, Hamilton & Steen fellow at
the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinic of Greater Boston Legal Services.
Professor Tirres also worked for the Immigration Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas and for the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell in Memphis, Tennessee. Professor Tirres’ research and publications focus on immigration, citizenship and property law in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Legal History as well as in various edited collections. In 2011, she was invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to Greece to serve as an expert speaker on issues of immigration law, policy and history.