Dree Collopy
Practitioner In Residence
WCL | WCL Faculty
Additional Positions at AU
Director, AU Dream Initiative
Degrees
J.D., Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law B.A., Grinnell College
Bio
Dree K. Collopy is a member of the faculty at the American University Washington College of Law and is Of Counsel at Grossman Young & Hammond, a nationally renowned immigration law firm. For nearly two decades, she has represented individuals and families seeking protection from persecution and torture, as well as other relief, before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals, and the U.S. courts of appeals. As a member of the faculty at the American University Washington College of Law, and previously the adjunct faculty at Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, Professor Collopy has taught courses on asylum and refugee law, international refugee protection, and law and public policy. She has also taught clinical courses on immigration representation and directed an immigration court removal defense clinic.
A recognized expert on U.S. asylum law and policy, Professor Collopy has served as chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) Asylum and Refugee Committee and is the author of AILA's Asylum Primer, the leading treatise on U.S. asylum law, policy, and practice. She frequently lectures and publishes on cutting-edge immigration issues and is often quoted in the press. Professor Collopy has been an opinion contributor to The Hill, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Forbes, and has briefed members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and White House staff on family detention, the push factors contributing to migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America, and asylum law and policy. Professor Collopy was honored with the Joseph Minsky award, one of AILA’s highest honors, for her contributions to the field of immigration law, and has been recognized as one of the top immigration lawyers in Washington, DC by Chambers and Partners and the Washingtonian. She earned her Juris Doctor degree and certificate in law and public policy at the Catholic University Columbus School of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College.
