Deborah Misir - Adjunct Professor of Law
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Deborah Misir
Adjunct Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor of Law
Deborah Misir is an Adjunct Professor and Director of the Veterans Clinic, and has also taught constitutional and administrative law at the Law Center.
Ms. Misir has over twenty years of experience in both government and private practice. In addition to teaching, Ms. Misir maintains an outside legal practice where she represents clients in complex civil and white-collar criminal trial and appellate litigation and counsels clients on regulatory compliance. She has led over seventy federal Circuit Courts of Appeals cases up to and including writs of certiorari and amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, made numerous federal appellate oral arguments, and served as lead counsel on many federal civil and criminal district court matters.
While in government practice, Ms. Misir served in the Administration of President George W. Bush as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor, ethics attorney at the White House Counsel’s Office, and Chief of Staff of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Ms. Misir started her career at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in the Executive Office for Immigration Review, headquarters of the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and DOJ’s Civil Division. At the Justice Department, among other things, she was specially assigned as counsel to the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, the counter-terrorism and intelligence task force created in the immediate wake of 9/11 to prevent future attacks, and as counsel to the U.S. delegation to the United Nation’s International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Ms. Misir graduated with a B.A. with honors in political science and an M.A. in the social sciences from the University of Chicago. She earned her law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. After law school, Ms. Misir served honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps until an injury cut short her service.