Lucas Guttentag

California

State Bar of California

New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

ID Number: 2176436

Since 1988

U.S. Supreme Court

Senior Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General. Senior advisor for immigration policy

United States Department of Justice

2021 - Current

Professor of the Practice of Law

Stanford Law School

2012 - Current

On leave for government service; Previously lecturer in residence.

Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law & Senior Research Scholar

Yale Law School

2009 - Current

On leave for government service; Previously Robina Foundation Distinguished Senior Fellow and Senior Research Scholar; Ford Foundation Distinguished Research Scholar.

Senior Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security

United States Department of Homeland Security

2014 - 2016

Senior Counselor to Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Senior policy advisor on immigration policy and litigation; coordination with White House. Domestic Policy Counsel, White House Counsel, and Department of Justice. (Top secret security clearance.)

Founder and national director ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project (IRP)

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), National Office, New York and California

1985 - 2010

Lecturer (adjunct)

University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

1996 - 2009

adjunct lecturer teaching immigration law

Columbia University School of Law

1987 - 1997

Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Immigration Law Clinic 1983-87 (full-time)

Staff attorney

Center for Law in the Public Interest, Los Angeles, California.

1979 - 1983

Harvard Law School

J.D.

Honors: cum laude

Activities: Board of Student Advisers (BSA)

University of California - Berkeley

A.B.

Honors: History with honors; Phi Beta Kappa.

Human Rights Hero

American Bar Association Human Rights magazine

2001

Philip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award

Immigrant Legal Resources Center (San Francisco)

1999

Human Rights Award

American Immigration Lawyers Association

1992

(co-recipient)

California’s “Top 100 Lawyers”

San Francisco/Los Angeles Daily Journal

2008, 2007

Jack Wasserman Litigation Award

American Immigration Lawyers Association

(2002, 1997, 1991, 1990)

Carol King Award for Outstanding Contribution to Immigration Law

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

(1998, 1991)

California State Bar

Member

Current

American Law Institute (ALI)

2014 - Current

American Bar Foundation

Fellow

2007 - Current

New York State Bar  # 2176436

Member

1988 - Current