Michael Kagan

Co-Director of Immigration Clinic
Associate Professor of Law
 
Phone: 702-895-2675
Email: michael.kagan@unlv.edu
Education:
B.A. cum laude, Northwestern University
J.D. cum laude, University of Michigan Law School

Michael Kagan is an expert in immigration and asylum law who spent ten years building legal aid programs for refugees throughout the Middle East and Asia. He held previous teaching positions at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the American University in Cairo. Kagan's research on refugee credibility assessment has been cited by multiple Courts of Appeal, and he has also written extensively about administrative law, international refugee law and humanitarian policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He co-directs the Immigration Law Clinic at UNLV.

 
Areas of Expertise
  • Administrative Law
  • Evidence
  • Immigration Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Refugee Law