Ilene Durst
Associate Professor of Law
M.F.A., University of California, Irvine;
J.D., New York Law School,
summa cum laude;
B.A., State University of New York at Albany,
magna cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6907
Email: ilened@tjsl.edu
Professor Durst’s scholarly interests focus on language and narrative theory, with particular application to appellate advocacy, immigration law and the literary representation of the legal culture. She joined the faculty in 1994, after extensive litigation and immigration law experience with law firms and public service organizations in New York, a judicial clerkship with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, State of New York, and adjunct teaching at New York Law School and University of California, Irvine.
Recent Scholarship
Immigration Law and Policy, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems , Social Sciences and Humanities: Law, § 6.31 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online, http://www.eolss.net)
The Lawyer’s Image, The Writer’s Imagination: Professionalism and the Storyteller’s Art in Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun, 13 Cardozo Studies In L. & Lit. 299 (2001)
Lost in Translation: Why Due Process Demands Deference to the Refugee’s Narrative, 53 Rutgers L. Rev. 127 (2000)
Valuing Women Storytellers: What They Talk About When They Talk About Law, 11 Yale J.L. & Feminism 245 (1999)
The Rights of Undocumented Aliens: Balancing Equal Protection and Federalism, 28 N.Y.L.Sch. L. Rev. 431 (1983); reprinted in BNA Specialty Law Digest: Education, Jan. 1985
List of Works
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Subjects include:
Evidence, Immigration Law, Law & Literature, Legal Writing, Refugee & Asylum Law.
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