Michael Kagan

Michael Kagan is the Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is the director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, which defends children and families fighting deportation in Las Vegas. Kagan began working with refugees in Cairo, Egypt, in 1998, while he was still in law school. He spent the first decade of his career building legal aid programs for refugees throughout the Middle East and Asia, and lived in London, Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem. In 2019, Kagan was a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits that prevented the Trump administration from including a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census. He has written for The Washington Post, Salon.com, The Hill, The Nevada Independent and The Daily Beast and is a leading national scholar of immigration and refugee law. The Battle to Stay in America is his first book.

He has lived in Las Vegas since 2011.