KARLA M. MCKANDERS Associate Professor of Law University of Tennessee, College of Law 1505 West Cumberland Avenue, Office 78, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996 (865) 974-5710 mckanders@utk.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Tennessee College of Law, Associate Professor (tenured), Knoxville, TN Courses: Immigration Clinic (2012-Present) Advocacy Clinic (2008-2011) Refugee Law and Policy (fall 2009) [2008-PRESENT] In immigration clinic, students handle immigration cases before immigration judges, asylum officers and the Board of Immigration Appeals. The students engage in bi-weekly seminar on substantive and procedural immigration law geared towards improving their critical thinking, legal analysis, written and oral advocacy skills. Responsibilities in clinic include supervising cases, teaching seminar classes twice weekly, developing course curriculum, and supervising students in administrative hearings. Also, provide intensive one-on-one instruction in all aspects of lawyering to students. University of Mohamed V-Souissi, Fulbright Lecturer, Rabat, Morocco [2011-2012] Courses: Comparative International Refugee Law Humanitarian International Law Taught humanitarian law seminar in French to students in International Masters Program focusing on the fundamentals of international humanitarian law with a focus on contemporary issues. Collaborated with organization Droit et Justice to create a pro bono project to increase the capacity of attorneys to provide legal assistance to immigrants. In fall 2011, conducted rotating seminars on international refugee law. Villanova University School of Law, Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow, Villanova, PA [2006-2008] Course: Clinic for Asylum, Refugee Emigrant Services Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic Recipient of teaching fellowship in a live, in-house Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services, which handles asylum cases before immigration judges, asylum officers and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Co-taught a bi-weekly seminar on substantive and procedural asylum law and written and oral advocacy skills. AWARDS AND HONORS AmeriCorps Equal Justice Works Grant to hire Fellow and Clinical Lecturer to work with the Immigration Clinic focusing on representation of immigrant children, 2015 2016. University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UTK ), Scholarly Activity and Research Award ( SARIF ) from Office of Research & Engagement, 2015. University of Tennessee, Chancellor s Honor, Jefferson Prize, Spring 2014. Recipient, UTK Outreach and Engagement Incentive Grant, Spring 2014. Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar, Spring 2013. Gardener of Change Award, Community Shares of Knoxville, recognizing educator who fosters social justice and critical thinking among her students, Spring 2013.
McKanders, page 2 of 7 EDUCATION DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, DURHAM, NC [May 2003] Juris Doctor SPELMAN COLLEGE, Atlanta, GA [May 2000] Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Minor in French Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Academic Dean s Scholar, 1998-2000 LEGAL EXPERIENCE Hon. Damon Keith for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Detroit, MI [2005-2006] Senior Law Clerk. Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Detroit, MI [2003-2005] Associate. Labor and Employment Practice Group. BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS KARLA MCKANDERS, ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES IN MOROCCO, Book Project (work-in progress). Karla McKanders, Unlawful Exclusions: Asylum Seekers, Gender and Social Justice in Morocco in LAW, GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NORTH AFRICA (Doris Gray and Nadia Sonneveld, eds., forthcoming 2016). Karla McKanders, Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 2 THE SUBNATIONAL RESPONSE: LOCAL INTERVENTION IN IMMIGRATION POLICY AND ENFORCEMENT (forthcoming 2016). RAQUEL ALDANA, BETH LYON, KARLA MCKANDERS, & WON KIDANE, GLOBAL ISSUES IN IMMIGRATION LAW, Chapters on: France, Freedom of Movement & Living Conditions of Immigrants (Franklin A. Gevurt, Ed., Thomson-West Publishing summer 2013). ARTICLES AND ESSAYS Karla McKanders, Immigrant Juveniles and the State Delinquency System, Howard.L.Rev. (forthcoming 2016). Karla McKanders, Moroccan Feminist Spring, BOSTON UNIV. INTERN TL JOUR. (2013). Karla McKanders, Invited Symposium: Federalism, State Sovereignty and Immigrant s Rights, 3:2 WAKE FOREST J. LAW & POLICY 333 (2013). Karla McKanders, Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring their Similarities, 61.4 Cath.L.Rev. 1 (fall 2012). Reprinted in IMMIGRATION NATIONALITY LAW REV., (2013). Karla McKanders, Invited Symposium: Unforgiving of Those Who Trespass Against U.S.: State Laws Criminalizing Immigration Status, 12 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L 331 (Spring 2011). Reprinted in IMMIGRATION NATIONALITY LAW REV., (2013). Karla McKanders, Invited Symposium: Unspoken Voice of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids, 14 J. Gender Race & Just. 1 (fall 2010).
McKanders, page 3 of 7 Karla McKanders, Class Based Coalition Building During the Post-Racial Era, 29 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 473 (2010). Karla McKanders, Sustaining Tiered Personhood: Jim Crow and Anti-Immigrant Laws, 26 Harv. J. Rac. & Eth. Jus. 163 (2010). Karla McKanders, Invited Symposium: The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants, 31.4 U.Ark. Little Rock L.J. 579 (2009). Karla McKanders, Welcome to Hazleton! ( Illegal Immigrants Beware): Local Employment Immigration Ordinances and What the Federal Government Must Do About, It 39 Loy.U.CHI.L.J. 1 (2007). CO-AUTHORED ARTICLES Raquel Aldana, Beth Lyon, and Karla McKanders, Raising the Bar: Law Schools and Legal Institutions Leading to Education Undocumented Lawyers, Arizona State L.J. (2012). Karla M. McKanders, Varying Shades of Grey: Teaching Amongst Generational Difference, 17.1 CLINICAL L. REV. 1001 (Fall 2010); Co-Authored Counterpart essays by Praveen Kosuri, Minna Kotkin, Steven Reid, Dean Rivkin. Raquel Aldana, Beth Lyon, and Karla McKanders, Society of American Law Teachers, SALT Recommendations to the Administration for Immigration Agency Reforms (June 16, 2009). SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Pedagogical Responses to Humanitarian Crisis on the Border: Clinical Work in Artesia, New Mexico, AALS Clinical Conference, Rancho Mirage, CA (May 2015). Invited Lecture Series, Structural Violence, Immigration Detention System, University of Tennessee, Global Studies and Geography, Discussion Leader for Film No Sanctuary: The Big Business of Family Detention (April 2015). International Women s Rights, Navigating Gender in Representing Asylum Seekers in Tennessee, University of Tennessee Women s Global Issues Conference (April 2015). Unlawful Exclusions: Asylum Seekers, Gender and Social Justice in Morocco, Gender, Law, and Social Change in North Africa Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco (March 2015). University of Tennessee, Women s Coordinating Council, Women s Empowerment Summit, Panelist Women Leaders in Male Dominated Fields (March 2014). Educating Lawyers in an Age of Arm Chair Activism, MicNite Pecha Kucha at the University of Tennessee, (November 2014). Invited North Carolina Law Review Symposium, Vulnerable Defendants in the Criminal Justice System, America s Disposable Youth: Undocumented Delinquent Juveniles, Chapel Hill, NC (October 2014). Invited Speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month, Current Issues in Immigration Law in East Tennessee United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Tennessee (October 2014). Legal Aid Clinic for Marginalized Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco, Global Alliance for Justice Education, Virtual Presentation: Delhi, India, December 2013.
McKanders, page 4 of 7 Protecting the Rights of Immigrants in Criminal or Civil Proceedings, SE/SW POC Conference, Little Rock, AR, April 2013. Human Rights Challenges for Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco, Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights Symposium, University of Tennessee, February 2013. The Anatomy of an Uprising: the Moroccan Feminist Spring, Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee, October 2012. Annual Supreme Court Review for Faculty, Arizona v. United States, University of Tennessee College of Law, August 2013. Moroccan Feminist Spring, Fulbright Annual Conference, Rabat, Morocco, April 2012. Constitutionality of SB 1070, American Council for the Blind, Phoenix, AZ, July 2010. The Material Support Bar and Security Inadmissibility: Coordinating Analysis and Advocacy in the United States and Canada, Law and Society Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2010. Fugitive Slave Act and State and Local Anti-Immigrant Laws, Washington University School of Law Faculty Workshop Series, St. Louis, MO, April 2010. Women, Democracy and the Moroccan Feminist Spring, University of Baltimore School of Law Applied Feminism & Democracy Conference, March 2012. Femmes & Migration, Trafficking Women, Festival Emigration, Agadir, Morocco, February 2012. Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Act, Emerging Immigration Professor s Conference at American University, Washington, D.C., June 2011. American Association of Law Schools, Hot Topics Panel: Enrolling Undocumented Students into the Legal Academy, Co-sponsored by Immigration and Education Law Sections, San Francisco, CA, January 2011. Let Justice Roll: Human Trafficking and Making Justice Matter, Veritas University of Tennessee, September 2010. Unbundling the Intersectional Discrimination of Latinos in the United States, University of California Los Angeles College of Law, Critical Race Studies Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, March 2010. Invited Symposia: Race, Gender, and Class at a CrossRoads: A Survey of their Intersection in Employment Economics and the Law, Human Capital and the Bottom Line: The Judge, the Whistle Blower, and the Immigrant Worker, 14th Annual Symposium for Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA, February 2010. Latino Electoral Politics and Immigration: A Critical Assessment of the Obama Administration on Immigration Reform, Latino Critical Race Theory Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2009.
McKanders, page 5 of 7 IMMIGRATION LAW TRAININGS The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Minor Children in Tennessee, Knoxville & Nashville, TN, October 2014. Immigration and the Humanitarian Crisis in East Tennessee, Oak Ridge TN League of Women Voters Association, Lunch with the League Speaker, October 2014. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Legal Update Seminar, Allies of Knoxville s Immigrant Neighbors ( AKIN ), Knoxville, Tennessee, July 2014. Pro Bono Lawyer Training, Hunter, Smith, & Davis, LLP Johnson City, Tennessee, October 2013. Coffee County Sherriff s Department Immigration Law Training, June 2011. Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, October 2010. Immigration Training for Tennessee Child Welfare Workers, Basic Immigration Law, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Nashville, TN, September 2010. Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings, Basic Asylum Law, Nashville, TN, November 2009. MEDIA ARTICLES AND QUOTES Quoted in Reuters article, Immigrants Face Major Hurdles in Signing Up to New Obama Plan (November 2014) (available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/us-usa-immigration-legaliduskcn0j40dw20141120). Featured in WBIR, Knoxville NBC Affiliate Story, President s Immigration Plan Could Impact Families in East Tennessee (November 20, 2014) (available at http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/11/19/presidents-immigration-plan-could-affect-east-tnfamily/19309045/). Quoted in Knoxville News Sentinel Article, Waiting for Answers: Knox s Undocumented Immigrants Hope for Action (November 17, 2014) (available at http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/waitingfor-answers-knoxs-undocumented-immigrants-hope-for-action_45962017). Immigration Clinic and students featured on WBIR, NBC affiliate on work on Syrian Asylum Case: UT Legal Clinic helping Syrian Christian whose Life is at Stake (April 16, 2015) available at http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2015/04/17/ut-legal-clinic-helping-syrian-christian-save-herlife/25973577/; and UT Legal Clinic helps student from Syria Secure Asylum (May 14, 2015) available at http://www.wbir.com/story/news/2015/05/14/ut-legal-clinic-helps-syrian-student-with-grant-forasylum/27284521/. Ben Waldron, Homeschooling German Family Fights Deportation, ABC News (March 2013) available at http://abcnews.go.com/us/home-schooling-german-family-fights-deportation/story?id=18842383. Sam Bollier, German Homeschoolers Fight for Asylum in US, Al-Jazeera (March 2013) available at http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/20133772515825350.html.
McKanders, page 6 of 7 Op-ed, Renewing Violence Against Women Act would Protect All, KnoxNews Sentinel (April 2012) available at http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/karla-mckanders-renewing-violence-against-women. Television Talk Show, Anything is Possible with Show Hallerin Hilton Hill (October 2011) available as podcast at http://www.podcasts.com/anything-is-possible/episode/anything-is-possible-910-karlamckanders. WATE, ABC Affiliate, Knox County Experts Weigh in on Illegal Immigration Laws, (April 2010) available at http://www.topix.com/forum/law/tmg22g87o525hs8lk. Radio Show, Let s Talk Law with Steve Oberman, Segregation, Discrimination and Equal Protection, Knoxville, TN, December 2009. Tennessean, At Least Three Immigrants Seek Asylum in Tennessee, Nashville, TN (August 2009). USA Today, Scholarships Come with Inspiration, (October 2005) available at http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-31-parks-scholarships_x.htm. SERVICE TO PROFESSION Centro Hispano, Board, Knoxville, TN, 2012-2015. Tennessee State Bar, Access to Justice Committee, Present. American Association of Law Schools, Journal of Legal Education, Editorial Board, 2011 2014. Society of American Law Teachers, Board of Directors, 2011-2015; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee, 2011-2012. Tennessee Alliance of Legal Services, Board Member, 2012-2013. United Way, Friends of Literacy, Board Member, Knoxville, TN, 2011-2013. Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, Board Member, 2005-2006. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW AND UNIVERSITY University of Tennessee, Faculty Senate, Present; College of Law, Admissions Committee, Present; College of Law, Judicial Clerkship Committee, Present; College of Law, Pro Bono Committee, 2014 2015; University Chancellor Advisory Group, Commission for Blacks, 2012-2014; Co-Chair Commission, 2013-2014; University Africana Studies Advisory Board, 2012-2015; University Fulbright-Hayes Application Review Committee, 2012-2013;
McKanders, page 7 of 7 Search Committee for Director of Clinical Program, 2010-2011; Law School Admissions Committee, 2009-2010; Kolwyck Committee for Summer Public Interests Grants, 2009-2011; Center for Study of Social Justice, Migration and Refugee Studies, Fellow, Present; Case Analysis & Briefing in the Introductory Period for First Year Students, Fall 2009; Pro Bono Service Committee, 2008-2011; Immigration Law Society, Faculty Advisor, 2008-2009; Asian Law Student Association, Faculty Advisor, 2009-2011. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS State Bar of Tennessee, 2008, Present; State Bar of Michigan, Present; State Bar of Pennsylvania (provisionally admitted as a Law Professor), 2007-2008; American Immigration Lawyers Association, Present; Association of American Law Schools, Present; Clinical Legal Education Association, Present; Board Member & Per Diem Annual Conference Committee. LANGUAGES Proficient in French.