Jordan Eddings Dollar
Miami
(305) 445-4090
Jordan E. Dollar is President of The Dollar Law Firm with offices in Miami, FL and Detroit, MI. Jordan also works as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at the FIU College of Law, and serves on the Board of Directors at Catholic Legal Services. He is the former Director of Detention Programs with Catholic Legal Services in Miami, Florida. Jordan is a graduate of the University of Florida and the FIU College of Law During his final year of law school, Jordan interned at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington, D.C as a Florida Bar fellow. Jordan is licensed to practice law in the states of Florida and Michigan.
In 2013, Jordan was honored as a Top 40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers in Miami-Dade County.
PUBLICATIONS
Jordan has published or been cited in the following publications:
Jordan E. Dollar, et. al. "Mastering Immigration Law," Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming Fall 2014).
Jordan E. Dollar, et. al. "In Time of Famine, Sweet Potatoes Have No Skin: A Historical Overview and Discussion of Post-Earthquake U.S. Immigration Policy Towards the Haitian People," 6 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 87(2011)
Jordan E. Dollar, "Haiti is Black! Racial Essentialism and United States Involvement in the 2004 Removal of President Aristide," 20 St. Thomas L. Rev. 642 (2008).
Cited in: Human Rights Watch, "Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Treatment, and Indefinite Detention in the U.S. Immigration System," (2010).
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Jordan's professional presentations include:
36th Annual Immigration Law Update, AILA South Florida Chapter, February 5 & 6, 2014 (invited)
University of Miami School of Law, "Innovate Immigration Defense CLE," University of Miami, Miami, FL, April 4, 2014.
National Immigrant Integration Conference, "What We Carried With Us..." DACA, IRCA and Naturalization Experiences Essential for a 'Times-Ten' Challenge," Miami, FL, August 1, 2013.
Catholic Legal Service Summer CLE Series, "Litigating the Criminal Alien Case: Making the Seemingly Impossible, Possible," Moderator and Presenter, Miami, FL, June 14, 2013
South Florida AILA CLE, "Hot Topics in Controlled Substance Violations and Immigration Consequences," Panelist, Miami, FL, April 18, 2012
33rd Annual Immigration Law Update, South Florida AILA, "The World After Silva-Trevino," Panelist, Miami, FL, February 17 & 18, 2011
"Miami In-service on Immigration Proceedings, Detention, and Mental Health" Organizer and Presenter held at FIU College of Law, Miami, FL on January 14, 2011
In-house immigration law training at the The Office of the Miami-Dade County Public Defender, November 19, 2010.
St. Thomas School of Law Symposium, "Human Rights Aftershocks: Haiti," Presenter, November 5, 2010
Catholic Legal Services Summer CLE Series, "Dealing with Matter of Silva-Trevino: categorical vs. realistic probability vs. non-elemental fact," Presenter, Miami, FL, July 9, 2010
"Critical Caribbean" moderator and panel member for Lat/Crit XI symposium held in Miami Beach, FL, October 2007.