UCSB Religious Studies

This talk will discuss how organizations and individuals have relied on religious freedom protections to assist immigrants. The landscape around legal protections for religious exercise has changed significantly since the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s. This talk examines recent and ongoing litigation at the intersection of religious freedom, humanitarian assistance, immigration raids, and protests.

Thomas Scott-Railton is an attorney at Gupta Wessler LLP and was previously a fellow with the Impact Litigation Practice of The Bronx Defenders. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then-Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson, and Judge Alison Nathan.

This event is presented by the UCSB Legal Humanities Initiative, co-sponsored by the Legal Humanities Research Focus Group and Walter H. Capps Center, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

See YOU at the University of California Religious Studies RECEPTION: Sunday 9-11:30 in the Regis Room , Marriott Copley Place, 3rd Floor.

Congratulations to Travis Poortinga, M.A. alumnus on the publication of his book Electric Orange!!