American Civil Liberties Union : Biography of Omar Jadwat

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Biography of Omar Jadwat (11/10/2004)

Omar C. Jadwat is Staff Counsel with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. He joined IRP as a Skadden Fellow in 2002 after graduating magna cum laude from New York University Law School and serving as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl. His practice includes litigation relating to immigration enforcement by state and local police. In a previous career, he worked as a development researcher in South Africa.

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