David Thronson | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		David Thronson
		Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Studies


		Phone: 702 895-2422 Email: david.thronson@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.S. and B.G.S. University of Kansas, 1985 M.A., Columbia University, 1990 J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1994

	Professor Thronson earned his J.D. degree in 1994 from Harvard Law School, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After clerking for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Professor Thronson received a Skadden Fellowship to provide direct legal services to at-risk young people at The Door’s Legal Services Center in New York City. He subsequently served as the Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law, litigating civil rights issues in New York and New Jersey before entering teaching. He came to the Boyd School of Law from New York University School of Law, and he also has taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Thronson teaches Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution and co-directs the Immigration Clinic.



	Selected Publications: BOOK CHAPTER Immigration Law and Young People, in New York State Bar Association, Rights And Responsibilities of Young People in New York: A Guide for Educators & Human Service Providers 108 (James M. Morrissey ed., 3d ed. 1997). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Creating Crisis: Immigration Raids and the Destabilization of Immigrant Families, 43 Wake Forest L. Rev. 391 (2008) Custody and Contradictions: Exploring Immigration Law as Federal Family in the Context of Child Custody, 59 Hastings L.J. 453 (2008) You Can't Get Here From Here: Toward a More Child-Centered Immigration Law, 14 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 58 (2006). Choiceless Choices: Deportation and the Parent-Child Relationship, 6 Nev. L.J. 1165 (2006) (reprinted in 12 Bender's Immigr. Bulletin 167 (Feb 15, 2007). Of Borders and Best Interests: Examining the Experiences of Undocumented Immigrants in U.S. Family Courts, 11 Tex. Hisp. J.L. & Pol’y 45 (2005) (reprinted in 11 Bender's Immigr. Bulletin 7 (Jan 1, 2006); reprint at 27 Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev. (2007). Creating Crisis: Kids Will Be Kids? Reconsidering Conceptions of Children’s Rights Underlying Immigration Law, 63 Ohio St. L.J. 979 (2002) (reprinted at 23 Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev. 3 (2003)). Gary Orfield and David Thronson, Dismantling Desegregation: Uncertain Gains, Unexpected Costs, 42 Emory L.J. 759 (1993). BAR AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Immigrants and the Family Courts, Nev. Law., Jan. 2006, at 30 (with Veronica Tobar Thronson). Cultural Cleansing: A Distinct National Identity and the Refugees from Southern Bhutan (Kathmandu: International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development, August 1993). --> More Publications (pdf)

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