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Ericka Curran
Associate Professor of Professional Skills; Leadership Honors Program Director
Full-Time Faculty
School of Law
Profile
Ericka Curran is an Associate Professor of Professional Skills and the Director of the Leadership Honors Program at the University of Dayton School of Law.
Professor Curran received her law degree from Seattle University School of Law and went on to practice Immigration Law. Professor Curran has served on the Board of Directors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Central Florida Chapter and has chaired numerous committees. Professor Curran also served on the Executive Committee for the North East Florida Human Trafficking Coalition and also served on the City of Jacksonville’s Mayor’s Victim Assistance Advisory Council. Before joining UDSL, Professor Curran was the Director of Experiential Learning at Florida Coastal School of Law. In practice, Professor Curran's practice focuses on the representation of detained immigrants, immigrant children, immigrant survivors of violent crime and human trafficking victims. Professor Curran has worked in the US and abroad on migration and refugee issues.
Professor Curran is located in office 422.
Courses Taught
LAW 6105 Legal Profession I
LAW 6106 Legal Profession II
LAW 5107 Criminal Law
LAW-4751 Immigration Law
LAW 4000 Intro to US Law
Degrees
J.D., Seattle University School of Law, 2002
B.A., The Evergreen State College 1996
Professional Awards
Ericka Curran received the 2023 Lloyd O'Hara Public Interest Law Award for her significant impact on Dayton's vulnerable immigrant and refugee populations.
Selected Publications
Curran, Ericka, "Deporting Jane Doe: When Immigrant Crime Victims Fall Through the Cracks of the Law Designed to Protect Them" (2022). School of Law Faculty Publications. 116.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/
E Curran & E Bonthuys, Customary Law and Domestic Violence in Rural South African Communities 21 S. Afr. J. Hum. Rts. 607-635 (2005).