Juliet Stumpf
Associate Professor of Law

Specialty Areas & Course Descriptions

Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Immigration and Citizenship Law

Academic Credentials

B.A. 1989 Oberlin College.
J.D. cum laude 1995 Georgetown University.

Professional Background

Juliet Stumpf comes to Lewis & Clark from the Lawyering Program faculty at the New York University School of Law. Prior to her position at NYU, she clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit. In practice, she served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department where she litigated employment discrimination claims and advocated for increased civil rights protections on behalf of immigrants and U.S. citizens of color. She also worked for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster in Palo Alto, California and Washington, D.C., where she served as the firm's representative to the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the Washington Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Juliet Stumpf graduated from Oberlin College in 1989 and the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. While in law school, she was a Notes and Comments editor for the Georgetown Law Journal.

Professor Stumpf’s research focuses on the intersection between immigration law and other substantive areas of law including constitutional law, criminal law, national security law, civil rights, and employment law. Her current research examines the convergence of criminal and immigration law and the role of punishment in immigration law. Recent articles include The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power (forthcoming in the American University Law Review (Dec. 2006)), Penalizing Immigrants, 18 Fed. Sentencing Rptr. 264 (Apr. 2006), and Citizens of an Enemy Land: Enemy Combatants, Aliens, and the Constitutional Rights of the Pseudo-Citizen, 38 U.C. Davis Law Review 79 (2004). She is a member of the Washington, D.C. and California bars. She also serves as an Articles Consultant for the International Journal of Constitutional Law.