Michael Wishnie [SEP] educated at
Michael Wishnie
Michael Wishnie is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Clinical work.
Wishnie teaches two clinics at Yale Law School. The "9/11 Clinic," known formally as "Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security after September 11," represents detainees in civil rights cases. The Workers and Immigrants Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) handles a host of immigrants' and workers' rights issues, including state and local law enforcement of civil immigration law, mandatory detention, labor trafficking, bilingual education, and
Judge H. Lee Sarokin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun and Stephen G. Breyer. He then received a Skadden Fellowship to work for the American Civil Liberties Union, representing New York City taxi drivers, garment, construction, restaurant, and domestic workers. Wishnie then served as co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law.
Wishnie is married to Cathy Edwards, arts administrator who worked as artistic director of Dance