Judge Morley will discuss challenges to the independence of agency adjudicators, drawing on his experience in the immigration courts, including his removal from a pending case during the Trump Administration. In 2022, Judge Morley returned to private practice. He is also an adjunct instructor of immigration law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Drexel University.
During his time as a judge, he adjudicated a wide variety of applications for relief from removal and rendered written and oral decisions on complex immigration law questions. He also served as an adjudicating official for attorney disciplinary matters brought by EOIR.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Morley practiced immigration law as a founding partner of Morley, Surin and Griffin. Before entering private practice, he served as a federal and state court public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, and successfully argued Mitchell v. United States, 536 U.S. 314 (1999) before the U.S. Supreme Court, which extended the Fifth amendment right to remain silent at sentencing.
Title:
Challenges to Decisional Independence: Lessons from the Immigration Courts with Judge Steven Morley
Date & Time:
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
4 - 5pm EDT A Zoom link will be provided to virtual registrants via an email from Eventbrite.
4 - 5pm EDT A Zoom link will be provided to virtual registrants via an email from Eventbrite.
Also Presented In-Person:
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
3800 Vartan Way
Harrisburg, PA 17110.
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
3800 Vartan Way
Harrisburg, PA 17110.
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This event is sponsored by the Law and Government Institute, Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Morley practiced immigration law as a founding partner of Morley, Surin & Griffin for nearly eight of his twenty-seven years in private practice. Before entering private practice in 1983, Judge Morley was a federal and state court public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He successfully argued Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314 (1999) before the United States Supreme Court, extending the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, as well as argued numerous cases before the Third Circuit and other United States Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
He was an editor of the Immigration & Nationality Handbook (AILA) for many years, is the author of the chapter on Immigration Appeals in the Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (PBI), and frequently lectured on immigration matters. He was Chapter Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and was appointed to two terms on the national AILA/EOIR Liaison Committee. He served as Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and served for more than a decade on the Board of Directors of HIAS Pennsylvania (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), including a term as the HIAS Board President.
Judge Morley is an adjunct professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Drexel University where he has taught Immigration Law, Refugee & Asylum Law, Immigration Litigation and Sentencing Law.
This event is sponsored by the Law and Government Institute, Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
Speaker:
Steven A. Morley was appointed an Immigration Judge with the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Philadelphia in December 2010 by Attorney General Eric Holder. He retired from the bench on July 1, 2022. During his more than eleven and a half years as a judge he adjudicated a wide variety of applications for relief from removal and rendered written and oral decisions on complex questions of immigration law. He also served as an adjudicating official for attorney disciplinary matters brought by EOIR.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Morley practiced immigration law as a founding partner of Morley, Surin & Griffin for nearly eight of his twenty-seven years in private practice. Before entering private practice in 1983, Judge Morley was a federal and state court public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He successfully argued Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314 (1999) before the United States Supreme Court, extending the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, as well as argued numerous cases before the Third Circuit and other United States Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
He was an editor of the Immigration & Nationality Handbook (AILA) for many years, is the author of the chapter on Immigration Appeals in the Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (PBI), and frequently lectured on immigration matters. He was Chapter Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and was appointed to two terms on the national AILA/EOIR Liaison Committee. He served as Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and served for more than a decade on the Board of Directors of HIAS Pennsylvania (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), including a term as the HIAS Board President.
Judge Morley is an adjunct professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Drexel University where he has taught Immigration Law, Refugee & Asylum Law, Immigration Litigation and Sentencing Law.
Credits:
1 substantive Pennsylvania CLE credit is available.
You may be able to self-apply in other states; check with your credit-granting authority.
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Widener University Commonwealth Law School is the Pennsylvania capital’s only law school, with three specialized centers of legal scholarship through its Law and Government Institute, Environmental Law and Sustainability Center, and Business Advising Program.
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