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Tel: 215.898.2314
Fax: 215.573.6783
Office Room: Silverman 031
Email: yvazquez@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Immigration Law
- Public Interest
- Clinical Education
Bio
Yolanda Vázquez studies immigration and criminal law, specifically her interest lies with their intersection in the criminal court system.
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Yolanda Vázquez studies immigration and criminal law, specifically her interest lies with their intersection in the criminal court system. She argues that while it is well established that criminal convictions increase the number of non-citizens placed into removal proceedings, this relationship raises serious questions concerning the role of courts and the duties of lawyers. She has argued that criminal attorney’s need to advise noncitizen defendants of the immigration consequences of a criminal conviction, an argument which the United States Supreme Court agreed with in Padilla v. Kentucky, a case in which she assisted. While attorneys are now obligated to advise as to the immigration consequences under the Sixth Amendment, how this implementation will take place and its relationship to both the court and defense counsel still has yet to be determined, an area in which she will continue to argue the importance of complete and acurate advisement of the defendant. Vázquez also studies the effect of the intersection of immigration and criminal law in the criminal justice system on Latinos, arguing that the criminal justice system has become the primary means to subordinate and socially marginalize Latinos.
Before joining Penn Law in 2008, Vázquez taught at Villanova and practiced in the Cook County Public Defender’s Office in Chicago and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
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Representative Professional Positions
South Jersey Legal Services – Staff Attorney (2002-04)
The Public Defenders Service for the District of Columbia – Staff Attorney (1999-2002)
University of Nevada at Las Vegas – Founding Director, Nevada Immigration Resource Project (2004-06)
Penn Law – Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer (2008- )
Villanova – Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic (2006-08)
Cook County Public Defender’s Office – Assistant Public Defender (1995-99)
Representative Publications
Where Do We Go from Here? Advising Noncitizen Defendants on the Immigration Consequences of a Criminal Conviction After Padilla, 38 FORDHAM URB. L.J. (forthcoming 2011). (forthcoming)
The War on Immigration & Crime: What Do Latinos Have to Do with It?, 15 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. (forthcoming 2011).
Perpetuating the Marginalization of Latinos: A Collateral Consequence of the Incorporation of Immigration Law into the Criminal Justice System, 54 HOW. L.J. 639 (2011).
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Advising Noncitizen Defendants on the Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions: The Answer for Criminal Defense Counsel, the Court, and the Sixth Amendment, 20 BERKELEY LA RAZA L. J. 31 (2010).
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Co-authored amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of criminal and immigration law professors and various immigration organizations, in the case of Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08-651 (U.S. Feb 23, 2009).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Member, Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc. (LatCrit).
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
Member, National Lawyers Guild.
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