Lauren DesRosiers is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Albany Law School’s Immigration Law Clinic (ILC). She first joined the law school in 2021 as the ILC’s staff attorney and has since taken on various roles, including prior appointments to direct the ILC and teach Immigration Law.

Before coming to Albany, Lauren spent several years with the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) representing queer and trans survivors of violence in immigration matters and related civil proceedings, first as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and later as a Senior Staff Attorney. She was a visiting professor and Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellow with the Historical Society of the New York Courts and Bard Early Colleges, where she developed and taught an undergraduate course that explored New York State’s place in the historical development of U.S. immigration law and policy.

Lauren began her legal career as a litigation associate at a large law firm in New York City, where she represented clients in civil matters in state and federal courts while maintaining an active immigration pro bono docket.

Lauren received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and B.A. from Bard College at Simon’s Rock.