Cade teaches Immigration Law and directs the school’s Community Health Law Partnership Clinic (Community HeLP), in which law students undertake an interdisciplinary approach to immigrants’ rights through individual client representation, litigation, and project-based advocacy before administrative agencies and federal courts. Cade served as associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning from 2020 to 2025.
Cade’s research explores: (1) the role of nonfederal actors and institutions in the modern immigration system, (2) intersections between immigration enforcement and criminal law, and (3) the legal framework for immigration policy activism. He has been published by the Northwestern University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Studies in Law, Politics & Society, among others. Cade’s scholarship has been cited in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, reprinted in anthologies and practitioner’s guides, used in law school curricula, and featured on JOTWELL.
In 2022, Cade received the University of Georgia Engaged Scholar Award, a university-level honor bestowed on one tenured faculty member each year whose scholarship and public service accomplishments have significantly advanced progress on issues of public concern. In 2021, he was a co-recipient of the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case, in recognition of multi-faceted, collaborative advocacy on behalf of noncitizens alleging medical abuse and retaliation in a Georgia detention center.