Ezra Brown

Ezra Brown is a Clinical Teaching Fellow with Cornell Law School’s Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic where he focuses his work on immigration law with central expertise in asylum and detention. He also works on employment-based visa cases with Cornell’s Path2Papers project. In these capacities, Ezra supervises and teaches students to represent asylum seekers, dreamers, and other migrants toward pursuing legal status in the United States. Prior to this role, Ezra supervised and trained dozens of teams of attorneys to conduct consults with detained migrants in three ICE detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas while working as a Pro Bono Attorney with Jones Day's Laredo Project. Prior to that, Ezra logged over 1,000 pro bono hours at Gibson Dunn which involved spearheading a divorce case from petition through trial on behalf of a disabled veteran mother whose children endured family violence, representing multiple families of Afghan asylum seekers at USCIS interviews, and appearing in federal immigration court to successfully dismiss deportation proceedings against a teenage boy. Ezra was recognized for this pro bono work by the State Bar of Texas' "W. Frank Newton Award" and by the Houston Bar Association's highest pro bono award—the "Harris County Heart of Pro Bono." 

Ezra also worked in litigation settings as a student-attorney prior to receiving his J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law. These positions include working for a federal judge, a U.S. Attorney’s office, Gibson Dunn’s summer program, the Environmental Law Clinic, the Capital Punishment Clinic, and as a Pro Bono Scholar for the Expunction Clinic. Ezra also earned the Presidential Scholarship in Advocacy for his performance in several moot court competitions, was Vice President of First Generation Law Students, a staff editor for the American Journal of Criminal Law, and a teaching assistant for the L.L.M. program. Prior to law school, Ezra received his M.B.A. from ???? (Providence University in Taiwan) while teaching English abroad, earned a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with honors from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and worked for a financial technology startup, a housing nonprofit, and on the founding team of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

Ezra speaks Spanish, is actively barred in Texas, and is admitted to practice in the in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Texas and the Western District of New York.