Ira J Kurzban

Practice Areas

Immigration and Naturalization

Civil Rights Law

International & Human Rights Law

Employment Discrimination

Career

Pro-Bono Activities:

Founder, Berkeley Law Foundation

Founder, Immigrants' List PAC and Immigrants List Civic Action, Inc.

Representative Cases:

Jean v. Nelson, 472 U.S. 846 (1985)

Commissioner, INS v. Jean, 496 U.S. 154 (1990)

McNary v. HRC. Inc., 498 U.S. 479 (1991)

Professional Memberships

American Immigration Lawyers Association, Past-President

American Immigration Lawyers Association, Former General Counsel

Honorary Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Fellow

Wasserstein Fellowship, Harvard Law School

Publications

Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook 1st -18th Edition

Democracy and Immigration, Keeping Out the Other, Columbia University Press, 2008

Personal

Mr. Kurzban holds J.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. with honors from Syracuse University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He is also an honorary fellow of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He is also the recipient of the Wasserstein Fellowship at Harvard University Law School and was named the 2020 Recipient of the Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law. Mr. Kurzban has been a founding partner in the law firm Kurzban, Kurzban, Tetzeli & Pratt for over three decades and is the chair of the firm's immigration department.