Professor Pistone is a Professor of Law and Director of the Clinical Program. She teaches the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES). Professor Pistone received her B.S. cum laude New York University, her J.D. cum laude from St. John's University School of Law, and her LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center. At St. John's, she was a member of the St. John's Law Review. Before joining the Villanova faculty in 1999, she was an associate in the corporate and telecommunications departments at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City and Washington, D.C., the Legal Director of Human Rights First in Washington, D.C., and a teaching fellow in the asylum clinic (Center for Applied Legal Studies) at Georgetown University Law Center. In 2006, Professor Pistone was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture at the University of Malta. Professor Pistone serves on the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights’ International Advisory Board and is co-chair of the ABA Clinical and Skills Committee. Professor Pistone's research and teaching interests focus on asylum and refugee law, immigration law, migration, clinical education, and Catholic social thought.
Articles
Rules Are Made to Be Broken: How the Process of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers (with John J. Hoeffner Esq.), Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series (2006)
Immigration inspectors are authorized to deport persons who arrive at U.S. ports without valid travel...
The Devil in the Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Thought Teaching Be? , Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series (2005)
The article explores Catholic social teaching's tradition of generality, and assesses the wisdom of, and...
A Times Sensitive Response to Professor Aleinikoff’s Detaining Plenary Power, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (2002)
Teaching International Law-'The Visible College of International Law Clinicians: Making a Real Difference in Law School and in the World, American Society of International Law Proceedings (2001)
The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair (with P. Schrag), Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (2001)
In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). This article...