Veronica Thronson
Director of the Immigration Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law | Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES
Veronica Thronson's students engage in policy research, resource development, community outreach, and advocacy related to immigration.
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Biography
Veronica Tobar Thronson is a Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing, MI where she also teaches Domestic Violence Law, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, and Immigration and Nationality Law. Thronson was a visiting professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law for the 2023-2024 academic year, where she directed the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and taught Immigration Law. She served as overall Director of the MSU Law Clinic from 2017 to 2021. Thronson frequently conducts trainings for attorneys and judges and was appointed to the faculty of the National Judicial College in 2012. Since 2015 she has served as expert faculty with the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project at American University Washington College of Law’s National Judicial Network and Family Law Attorneys Community of Practice.
From 2002 to 2010, Thronson was the Directing Attorney of the Domestic Violence Project at the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada where she practiced in the areas of family and immigration law. She also taught Community Property at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV. Previously, Thronson served as the Director of Training and Legal Services at the New York Immigration Coalition, a non-profit umbrella advocacy organization for over 200 groups in New York that work with immigrants, refugees, and asylees. At the NYIC, Thronson developed community outreach materials and programs, and conducted training for advocates and attorneys on immigration and benefits laws and their impact on immigrant communities. She also appeared bi-weekly on an internationally broadcast program of Univision providing information on current immigration law, benefits law and immigrant-related topics and was a regular commentator for other local and national newspapers and radio programs on these topics.
Thronson has served on numerous boards and task forces. Currently, she is a core faculty member of the Michigan State University Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence and the Michigan State University Center for Gender in Global Context, and Vice-Chair of the board of the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project.
Areas of Expertise (2)
Domestic Violence
Immigration Law
Accomplishments (1)
Champion of Justice Award, State Bar of Michigan (professional)
2023
Education (2)
City University of New York School of Law: J.D. 2000
City University of New York - City College: B.A., International Studies 1993
Affiliations (2)
- American Bar Foundation : Fellow
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
Links (2)
News (2)
Trump deportations in Michigan: How lawyers, advocates say immigrants should prepare
Detroit Free Press online
2024-11-15
"It's pretty scary. More information is going to come out as he takes office. But just looking at the people he is going to install in the important positions tells us that he is not joking, that we need to take it seriously," said Veronica Thronson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law.
Ask the expert: Why is immigration reform so contentious?
Michigan State University online
2024-10-30
Veronica Tobar Thronson is a clinical professor of law who directs the Immigration Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law. Here, she provides an overview of why there has been a lack of immigration reform and how it has become a leading political issue.
Event Appearances (3)
Discussant for author meets reader panel, Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing
June 2024 | Law & Society Association Annual Meeting Denver, CO
Immigration Law Teachers Workshop
May 2024 | University of Minnesota Law School Clinical Workshop Minneapolis, MN
Seeking Asylum Film and Panel Presentation
October 2023 | Penn State Harrisburg and the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
Journal Articles (1)
Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law’s Affidavit of Support
Yale Law & Policy Review2022 “It’s been a long time financially supporting someone who abuses me. How can an American living at . . . poverty level provide a home for themselves separate from a home for their abuser? And living with an abuser, how can the American be safe or have the right to pursue happiness in their own home that they have paid for with their own labor? Rather, the American is an indentured servant to the abuser, or maybe an unhappy slave.”
