Brian G. Slocum

Visiting Professor

Teaching Interests: Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Contracts, Immigration Law, Statutory Interpretation

Education: B.B.A (summa cum laude), 1996, Pacific Union College; J.D. (cum laude), 1999, Harvard Law School

Experience: 2007-08, Visiting Professor of Law, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; 2005-present, Assistant Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law; 2004-05, Visiting Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law; 2000-04, Department of Justice, Honors Program; 1999-2000, Clerk, Judge Frank Magill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Achievements/Publications: Professor Slocum’s recent articles include The War On Terrorism and the Extraterritorial Application of the Constitution in Immigration Law, 84 Denver University Law Review 1017 (2007); Canons, The Plenary Power Doctrine and Immigration Law, 34 Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2007); and The Political Branches: Immigration “Reform” and The Battle for the Future of Immigration Law, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming 2007) (selected for symposium issue).  Professor Slocum has also published in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and the Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology.  At the Department of Justice, Professor Slocum handled a wide range of legal tasks, including arguing more than a dozen appellate cases, writing and reviewing criminal legislation targeting the sexual exploitation of children, authoring the Department's guidance on various criminal matters to federal prosecutors throughout the country, lecturing to federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents, and writing a speech for the Attorney General and congressional testimony for the Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

E-mail:  bgslocum@memphis.edu