Erika Nyborg-Burch

Erika Nyborg-Burch is an Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law, where she teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, immigration law, civil procedure, and constitutional law. Her scholarship examines the intersections of criminal enforcement and immigration regulation, including state-level criminalization of noncitizen status and the constitutional implications of escalating enforcement. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review and the Notre Dame Law Review.

Professor Nyborg-Burch previously directed the Farmworker & Immigration Rights Clinic at Florida State University College of Law. She also served as a staff attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, an immigration public defender at the Bronx Defenders, and a senior associate at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, where she maintained an active pro bono practice. She is a founding member of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project.

Professor Nyborg-Burch clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and of Brown University, where she earned honors degrees in International Relations and Hispanic Studies.