Zachary New ('19) Wins Yale Law Journal鈥檚 Immigration-Focused Student Essay Competition
罢丑别听Yale Law Journal听announced this month that Zachary New ('19) is one of two winners of its annual student essay competition, focused this year on emerging issues in immigration law.听The winning essays by New and the University of Miami鈥檚 Elizabeth Montana will be published in the听Yale Law Journal Forum听in early 2020.
New鈥檚 essay, Ending Citizenship for Service in Forever War, analyzes the recent policies that are causing a decline in U.S. citizenship for service, a tradition dating back to the Revolutionary War in which noncitizens earn their citizenship after serving in the U.S. military.
New works at the Denver office of Joseph & Hall, P.C., where he focuses on corporate immigration and federal litigation.
While at Colorado Law, New was a founding member and president of the Immigration Law and Policy Society, through which he worked to bring immigration issues and advocacy opportunities to the newest generation of lawyers. He spent a year volunteering for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network and frequently visited Denver鈥檚 local ICE detention center to assist detained individuals. New simultaneously worked out of Colorado Law鈥檚 Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic to give free representation to individuals in ICE custody.
Together with Associate Professor and Director of Colorado Law鈥檚 Immigration and Citizenship Program Ming H. Chen, New coauthored an article, 鈥,鈥 which was published this year in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal.
New has worked on the representation of clients at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and various Federal courts,听both at the district court and appellate levels.
