Christopher N. Lasch
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, Christopher N. Lasch worked as a public defender in Louisville, Kentucky, and then partnered with another former defender to form a small private law firm dedicated to criminal defense and civil rights litigation. In 2006, Prof. Lasch became a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Yale Law School, where he taught in numerous clinics, including five semesters in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, defending immigrants in removal proceedings and litigating immigration-related civil rights cases. After serving as a visiting assistant clinical professor at the Suffolk University Law School during the 2009-2010 academic year, Prof. Lasch came to the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law in 2010 to teach in the Criminal Defense Clinic. In 2018, Prof. Lasch co-founded the College of Law's Immigration Law and Policy Clinic, which serves detained clients at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora. Prof. Lasch's scholarship focuses on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, and the availability of constitutional remedies in federal habeas and state post-conviction litigation. His published scholarship on immigration detainers includes “Enforcing the Limits of the Executive's Authority to Issue Immigration Detainers,” 35 William Mitchell L. Rev. 164 (2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1317326; “Federal Immigration Detainers After Arizona v. United States,” 46 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 629 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2178524; “Rendition Resistance,” 92 N.C. L. Rev. 164 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2352429; and “Preempting Immigration Detainer Enforcement Under Arizona v. United States,” 3 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol'y 281 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253001.
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