About
Mr. Martin: David
Martin joined the law faculty in 1980, after serving two years
as special assistant to the assistant secretary for human rights
and humanitarian affairs at the Department of State. He has taught
citizenship, constitutional law, immigration, international law,
international human rights, Presidential powers, refugee law,
and property.
While
a student at Yale Law School, Martin served as editor-in-chief
of the Yale Law Journal. After receiving his law degree, he clerked
for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F.
Powell, Jr. He later practiced with Rogovin Stern & Huge in
Washington, D.C., before accepting the post at the State Department.
An
authority on refugee, asylum, and immigration issues, Martin has
participated in the training asylum officers for the Department
of Justice and new members of Canada's Immigration and Refugee
Board. As a German Marshall Fund research fellow in Geneva in
1984-85, he examined Western Europe's response to rising numbers
of asylum seekers. In 1988 he chaired the Immigration Section
of the Association of American Law Schools.
He
has twice served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference
of the United States, preparing studies and recommendations on
federal migrant worker assistance programs and on reforms to political
asylum adjudication procedures. He is now chair of a German Marshall
Fund project on dual nationality and of a working group on the
same subject for the Carnegie Endowment's Citizenship Project.
In
1993 he undertook a consultancy for the Department of Justice
that led to major reforms of the U.S. political asylum adjudication
system. Martin was on leave from August 1995 to January 1998,
serving as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
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Mr.
Martin was quoted April 29th in a Los Angeles Times story by Patrick
J. Mconnell and Jonathan Peterson headlined: SKEPTICS WARY OF
IMPENDING INS SPLIT / RESTRUCTURING: DETAILS ARE SKETCHY ABOUT
HOW THE TWO NEW BUREAUS WOULD BE ORGANIZED.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000030524apr29.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation
Mr.
Martin was quoted April 20th in a Washington Post article by Dan
Eggen headlined: COURT PAPERS ON DETAINEE RELEASED / JUSTICE DEPT.
SAYS IT WILL STILL WITHHOLD INFORMATION ABOUT OTHERS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18244-2002Apr19.html
Mr.
Martin was quoted April 6th in a Norfolk Virginian-Pilot article
by Tim McGlone headlined: AMERICAN TALIBAN COULD FACE A TRIBUNAL
OR FEDERAL COURT TRIAL / YASSER ESSAM HAMDI COULD GET DEATH PENALTY
IN EITHER CASE SCENARIO IF HE'S GUILTY OF TREASON
http://www.pilotonline.com/military/ml0406ham.html
Mr.
Martin was quoted April 4 in a Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise
story by Michelle Mittelstadt and Alfredo Corchado headlined:
LOCAL POLICE ROLE IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT STUDIED / PROPOSAL:
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING THE MAJOR SHIFT
IN POLICY.
(Not online)
Martin,
a law professor and former general counsel to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, was quoted in a Friday March 15th
New York Times article by Eric Schmitt headlined:
AGENCY FINDS ITSELF UNDER SIEGE, WITH MANY RESPONSIBILITIES AND
MANY CRITICS
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/politics/15INS.html
Martin,
a law professor and former general counsel to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, co-authored an op-ed piece for the
Feb. 26, 2002 Washington Post (with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, a
law professor at Georgetown University), headlined: ASHCROFT'S
IMMIGRATION THREAT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2177-2002Feb25.html
Martin,
a law professor and former general counsel to the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, is quoted in a Feb. 12th, 2002 New
York Times story by William Glaberson headlined: "JUDGE GIVES
CHILDREN VOICE IN DEPORTATION"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/nyregion/12IMMI.html
