James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

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An expert on civil rights, immigration issues and constitutional law, Gilbert Carrasco is the author of three national casebooks and numerous law review articles on these subjects. He has a wealth of practical experience in civil rights litigation in Washington, D.C. He served in the U.S. Department of Justice, as special assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, as trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division and as special consultant to the Department of Justice. He also worked in the National Center for Immigrants’ Rights and as national director of Immigration Services for the U.S. Catholic Conference.

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Professor Cunningham-Parmeter is an expert in employment and immigration law. He has been quoted in the national press, including the Los Angeles Times. Cunningham-Parmeter teaches Employment Law and Discrimination, Labor Law, and Contracts, and his research focuses on the intersection of employment law and immigration law.

Cunningham-Parmeter was ranked among the top persuasive speakers in the nation in college and won two writing competitions at Stanford Law School. Following graduation, he served for two years as law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He then worked as a Skadden Fellow with the Oregon Law Center Farmworker Program, representing migrant agricultural workers in the areas of occupational health and workplace discrimination.

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Professor Skinner’s scholarly research primarily focuses on issues related to human rights litigation in U.S. courts and the role of customary international law in domestic courts. She joined the Clinical Law Program faculty in 2008 to launch the school’s first International Human Rights Clinic. Prior to entering academia, Skinner was a civil rights and international human rights attorney with the Public Interest Law Group PLLC, a Seattle-based law firm she founded in 2003. She also worked as a civil litigator with the national law firm of Dorsey and Whitney LLP and as a federal and state prosecutor. Skinner has several years' experience litigating international human rights cases before U.S. courts, and currently has a case before the European Court of Human Rights. She also has substantial experience representing immigrants seeking asylum and has done extensive work on behalf of the rights of immigrants and conditions of immigrant detention.

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