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B.A., Hillsdale College
M.A., Seton Hall University
J.D., Seton Hall University
LL.M., Southern Methodist University
Professor Rogerson joined the faculty in 2011 after completing a two-year Clinical Teaching Fellowship at University of Baltimore School of Law, where she taught and supervised students enrolled in the Immigrant Rights Clinic. Professor Rogerson Directs the Immigration Law Clinic, an experiential course through which students represent immigrant victims of crime including child abuse and neglect, domestic violence and sexual assault. Her students also regularly participate in related legislative advocacy initiatives. Professor Rogerson combines her experience as a public interest attorney representing immigrant adults and children in cases involving torture, domestic violence, human trafficking and guardianship petitions at the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc. with her scholarly interests examining failures in legal systems. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections between domestic violence, family law, race, gender, international law and immigration law and policy. Immediately after graduation from Seton Hall Law School, Professor Rogerson worked for several years as an associate attorney at a law firm with practices in New York and New Jersey.

Books

Publications

The Politics of Fear: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children and the Case of the Southern Border, 61 Villanova Law Review 843 (2017)» Link to Publication
"Consider children when designing immigration system" (op-ed) (Albany Times Union, Jan. 7, 2016)Consider-children-when-designing-immigration-6741313.php
“Using Hip-Hop’s Lyrical Narrative to Inform and Critique the Family Justice System” in the book "Hip Hop and the Law" (edited by: Pamela Bridgewater, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Donald F. Tibbs), published by Carolina Academic Press (August 2015).
Lack of Detained Parents’ Access to the Family Justice System and the Unjust Severance of the Parent-Child Relationship (Summer 2013, The Family Law Quarterly – a journal of the American Bar Association Family Law Section)
Domesticating Due Diligence: Municipal Tort Litigation's Potential to Address Failed Enforcement of Orders of Protection, 21 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and Law 101 (2013)Article on SSRN
Unintended and Unavoidable: The Failure to Protect Rule and Its Consequences for Undocumented Parents and their Children, Family Court Review, Vol. 50, pp. 580, 2012Article on SSRN
Waiting for Alvarado: How Administrative Delay Harms Immigrant Victims of Gender-Based Violence, 55 Wayne L. Rev. 1811 (2009)papers.cfm
The “Necessity Defense” and Emerging Arbitral Conflict in its Application to the US-Argentina Bilateral Investment Treaty, 13 Law & Bus. Rev. Am. 547 (2007)Article on SSRN

Forthcoming Publications

Selected Achievements

Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic, participated in a press conference in which Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy pledged to protect local residents in the DACA program on September 8, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson participated as a panelist at the Immigrants and State Courts: State Law, the New York Family Court Act & Federal Immigration Law, Policy and Enforcement CLE at the State Bar Center on June 6, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson co-organized and was a panelist at the Emergency Preparedness for Families Affected by the Executive Orders on Immigration CLE at the New York State Bar Association on April 12, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson presented “Stoic Feminism: Using the Master’s Tools to Renovate the Master’s House” at “The Politics of Difference and the Threshold of Law” conference at Albany Law School on March 31, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson moderated the session “Rights of Families and Children/Immigration” at the “Access to Justice is Social Justice” CLE at Albany Law School on March 30, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson and Immigration Law Clinic Fellow Mary Armistead delivered a training on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) at the Legal Project on March 3, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson presented at the "Advocacy and Activism Today” symposium at Albany Law School on February 25, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was honored at the Legal Aid Society's 2016 Pro Bono Publico Awards in New York City on October 26, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson, with Professor Keri Gould, presented "Finding the Double-Yolk in Soft-Money Clinical Support" at the at the New England Clinical Conference at Boston University School of Law, October 21-22, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson contributed to a workshop discussing “Integrating Practice Components into Doctrinal Teaching” at the Upstate Clinical Conference at Cornell Law School on August 10, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was appointed to the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Children and the Law on June 1, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson participated as a panelist in the forum "New York State and the Importance of Immigration" at the Rockefeller Institute of Government on March 29, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson presented at the CLE seminar entitled "Emerging Appellate Issues Regarding Special Immigrant Juveniles" for Appellate Division Third Department court attorneys at the New York State Bar Association headquarters on February 4, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was named to the new Advisory Council on Immigration Issues in Family Court by Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks on October 5, 2015.
Professor Sarah Rogerson participated in a panel on “Emerging Issues in State-based Immigration Reform” as part of the Government Law Center's 2015 Warren M. Anderson Legislative Seminar Series on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was invited by the federal Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to participate in a roundtable on July 22, 2014, discussing how OVW and law school clinical programs can collaborate to increase access to legal services and support for survivors.
Professor Sarah Rogerson discussed "Challenges and Creative Solutions: Domestic Violence in the Context of Municipal Tort and Immigartion Law" for the Appellate Division, Third Department, on Sept. 19, 2013.
Professor Sarah Rogerson, at Hofstra Law’s symposium called “Immigrants and the Family Court,” presented her research on a panel titled “How Undocumented Status Affects Children and Families,” on Friday, Nov. 9. The presentation was based on a paper Professor Rogerson wrote for an upcoming Family Court Review.

Professor Sarah Rogerson presented her article "Due Diligence Defined: The Potential of Municipal Tort Liability for Failed Enforcement of Orders of Protection" at CUNY School of Law on Oct. 10, 2012. The paper is soon to be published in the American Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law.

In the News

Professor Sarah Rogerson was a guest on WAMC’s Everything Explained podcast to break down some basics and answer the question, “What is DACA?”
Professor Sarah Rogerson was a guest on WAMC’s “Vox Pop” to discuss immigration, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the effects of its repeal on September 5, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson joined "The Capitol Pressroom" to discuss several issues surrounding domestic violence, including how immigration policies are impacting undocumented victims of domestic violence, on August 22, 2017.
Recently promoted professors Raymond Brescia, Keith Hirokawa and Sarah Rogerson were featured in the Times Union's "On the Move" section and the Business Review's "People on the Move" section in July 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic, joined "The Capitol Pressroom" to discuss themes around the issue of domestic violence, including whether immigrant domestic violence survivors are seeking justice in the current political climate, on July 19, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson joined "The Capitol Pressroom" to discuss immigration issues, sanctuary cities, and the work of the Immigration Law Clinic on July 11, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was quoted in the Register-Star article “200 gather at courthouse to protest detentions, call for justice” on February 18, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson discussed immigration enforcement developments with WNYT NewsChannel 13 on February 23, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Law Clinic & Justice Center and its Immigration Law Clinic, spoke with NewsChannel 13 for the story "Brother of Iranian UAlbany Professors reunited with family amid block on immigration order" on February 10, 2017.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was quoted in the Times Union article "Immigrants flock to Capital Region lawyers after Trump travel ban" on February 4, 2017. Her comments were reposted by All Over Albany.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was quoted in a press release and spoke at a news conference calling for pardons for immigrant youth enrolled under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order. The press event was covered by numerous English- and Spanish-language outlets, including WROC-TV, NewsChannel 13, CBS 6, Impacto New York, Mundo Hispanico, and Fox News Latino.
Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Law Clinic & Justice Center and its Immigration Law Clinic, was quoted in the article "Albany forum examines power of immigrants in the Empire State" in the Times Union on March 29, 2016.
"After just nine months, a new Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School has recruited bilingual University at Albany students to help with translation services, trained 200 volunteer law students and lawyers to assist unaccompanied minors and supported dozens of battered women whose abusers control them by threatening to have them deported," the Times Union wrote.
Professor Sarah Rogerson was featured on the CBS 6 (WRGB-TV) evening newscast following the event "Immigrant Children & Family Courts in New York State: Challenges and Avenues for Relief" on January 20, 2016.
Professor Sarah Rogerson's op-ed, "Consider children when designing immigration system," appeared on Page 1 of the Times Union's Perspective section on January 7, 2016.

Rogerson, Sarah F.

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