Diane Uchimiya, JD, LLM

Director, Abrahams Legal Clinic

Assistant Professor

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Diane Uchimiya, JD, LLM

Director, Abrahams Legal Clinic

Assistant Professor

Professor Diane Uchimiya joined Creighton University in 2020 from the University of La Verne College of Law in California. Professor Uchimiya has significant practice experience, as well as more than 15 year of clinical law teaching experience. She practiced immigration law for more than ten years—eight in private practice and two as an Advocacy Fellow/Advising Attorney with the Center for Applied Legal Studies(CALS) at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2008, Professor Uchimiya founded the Justice and Immigration Clinic (JIC) at La Verne Law.  She is a member of the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, and she has been a longstanding member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, her J.D. from University of California, Hastings, and her B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. In 2020, Professor Uchimiya’s article, A Blackstone's Ratio for Asylum: Fighting Fraud While Preserving Procedural Due Process for Asylum Seekers, 26 Pa. St. Int'l L. Rev. 383 (2007), was cited by the United States Supreme Court in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, 140 S. Ct. 1959 (2020).

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook
    Kiblan Malea, The right to counsel in immigration matters [Book Chapter] 2003

Publications

  • Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
    Uchimiya Diane, Falling through the cracks
    23, p. 109 - 162 2013
  • Uchimiya Diane, Arizona immigration law sacrifices public safety 2010
  • Uchimiya Diane, Rethinking asylum for German homeschoolers 2010
  • Uchimiya Diane, A long way gone 2008
  • Penn State International Law Review
    Uchimiya Diane, A Blackstone’s ratio for asylum
    26:2, p. 382 - 439 2007
  • Uchimiya Diane, Saving sanctuary 2006