Samuel William Bettwy
University of San Diego School of Law
From 1987 to 1999, Bettwy was an Assistant Editor of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law. He has specialized in immigration law since 1987 when he began as a prosecutor in immigration court for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Francisco. From there, he was promoted to Associate General Counsel in Washington, DC, in charge of attorney training, and then he transferred to the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, where he continues to specialize in immigration law matters before the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2007 and 2008, Professor Bettwy was the only government attorney selected in the category of Immigration in Super Lawyer’s San Diego Edition.
Bettwy is an adjunct professor of law at both the University of San Diego School of Law and Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Author of several published law review articles on the subjects of international law and immigration law.
Bettwy also served as an active reservist in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 1987 to 2014, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.
- Government attorney
- Arizona
- State Bar of Arizona
- ID Number: 006735
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- California
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- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
- ID Number: 379484
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- French: Spoken, Written
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- University of San Diego School of Law
- - Current
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- - Current
- Attorney
- U.S. Department of Justice
- - Current
- Lieutenant Colonel
- U.S. Army Reserve
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- Naval War College
- M.A. (2015) | National Security and Strategic Studies
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- Honors: With Highest Distinction
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- Georgetown University Law Center
- LL.M. (1985) | International and Comparative Law
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- California Western School of Law
- J.D. (1980)
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- Pomona College
- B.A. (1976) | Economics
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- California State Bar # 94918
- Member
- - Current
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- Comparing Criminal Procedures through Film
- Vandeplas Publishing
Comparing Criminal Procedures through Film - eBook
