Dr. Teji serves as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Center for Social Justice’s Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall Law. She co-teaches the Clinic seminar alongside Prof. Lori Nessel.

Dr. Teji specializes in detained removal defense, with expertise at the intersection of criminal and immigration law. As the Managing Attorney of the Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative at Seton Hall Law's Center for Social Justice, she led initiatives that safeguard the rights of noncitizens in immigration detention for over three years.

Previously, Dr. Teji served as a Senior Staff Attorney at Make the Road New York (MRNY), advocating for non-citizens in removal proceedings and advancing the rights of Long Island residents. She also held a prestigious fellowship at Justice in Motion, where she developed innovative strategies to secure the release of migrant children from U.S. detention through cross-border collaborations. From 2012 to 2017, she worked at Brooklyn Defender Services, first as a DOJ Accredited Representative, and then as a law graduate/attorney. She was the first Board of Immigration Appeals Accredited Representative in the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), the first nationwide immigration removal defense program that followed a model of universal representation.

Dr. Teji holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from Widener University, Delaware Law School, where her research focused on mentally ill noncitizens in removal proceedings and the comparative legal frameworks of U.S. immigration and criminal justice systems. She earned her Master’s in Law (LL.M.) from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, engaging deeply with immigration law through the Immigration Justice Clinic. At Cardozo, Dr. Teji was awarded a scholarship to travel to Ecuador and work with Colombian women refugees. She was also a recipient of the Dean's Merit Scholarship for the duration of her studies. Dr. Teji graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), School of Law in 2010.

Her dedication extends beyond practice into academia, having received a teaching fellowship at Delaware Law's Dignity Rights Practicum. Dr. Teji is admitted to practice in New York and remains committed to advancing justice and dignity for all noncitizens through her practice and scholarship.

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ARTICLES

Teji G, The Hidden Costs: Stigma, Mental Illness, and the Collateral Consequences of Deportation (work in progress).

Teji, G., Advancing Protections for the Mentally Ill in Removal Proceedings: Lessons Learned from the Criminal Justice System, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. 2705372269 (2022).

Shanna N. McClain, Carl Bruch, Erin Daly, James May, Yuko Hamada, Miko Maekawa, Nagisa Shiiba, Mikiyasu Nakayama, and Glykeria Tsiokanou,[1] Migration with Dignity: A Legal and Policy Framework, J. Disaster Res., Vol.17, No.3, pp. 292-300 (2022).

REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

A. Bernardo, G. Teji, M. Vastine, and C. Ward, 2024 Detention Updates: Challenges Facing Detainees and Attorneys, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Immigration Practice Advisory, AILA Publications (2024 Ed), available at http://agora.aila.org.

J. Bruning, S. Mathur, J. Pratt, G. Teji, and A. Waterhouse, The Great Writ of Habeas Corpus, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Immigration Practice Pointers, AILA Publications (2023–24 Ed.), available at http://agora.aila.org.

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Manual, A Step-by-Step Guide for Safe Passage Project Pro Bono Attorneys, Safe Passage Project, 4th Edition (Nov. 2021).

Representing Youth in Removal Proceedings, A Step-by-Step Guide to Representing Immigrant Youth, Safe Passage Project, 2nd Edition (June 2021).

Teji, Glykeria, and May, James and Daly, Erin. Migration with Dignity (Aug. 23, 2020), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3665316.

Norton, S.E. and Teji, G., Issue Alert: Informal Adoptions in Central America and Their Implications for U.S. Immigration Cases, Justice in Motion (Dec. 2020), available at https://www.justiceinmotion.org/family-law.