The case of Jose Fuentes-Colocho highlights the complexities of cases involving youth fleeing gang violence. Fuentes-Colocho sought refuge from El Salvador as a teenager after being repeatedly persecuted by Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). MS-13 is no longer just a street gang; it is now the organized insurgency which destabilizes El Salvador’s political scene. It controls municipalities…
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A woman suffering severe domestic violence at the hands of her husband fled Uganda and sought asylum in the U.S. With HIRC’s Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellow Emily Leung and HIRC students Mevlude Akay (LLM ‘14) and Katie McCarthy (JD ‘15) arguing her case in the Boston Immigration Court, this client was…
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By Brittany Adams, MTS ’14 As a second-year graduate student at Harvard Divinity School in the Master of Theological Studies program, I have had the privilege to volunteer at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic where I have developed a deeper, more nuanced understanding of immigration and refugee law and the critical, rewarding work that…
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Summer Legal Internship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC). The legal intern will work on cases involving direct representation of individuals from around the world seeking asylum and other humanitarian protections. The legal intern may also work on appellate and policy advocacy at the…
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via: The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs blog By: Geehyun Sussan Lee, J.D. ’15 One of my least favorite words is “alien”. Growing up as a 1.5 generation American, I generally did not like any words or phrases that emphasized my liminality, my not-quite-enough-ness. However, many of those other words and phrases also…
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via: The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs blog By: Elizabeth Gettinger, J.D. ’15 I arrived in Tel Aviv in early January knowing very little about Israeli asylum law but with some sense that the issue was politically divisive. My fellow HLS students and I spent our first few days at the Clinic for…
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via: The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs blog By: Lily Axelrod, J.D.’15 Thirty-three professors from Massachusetts law schools have signed on to an important legal opinion drafted by Harvard Law students in support of the Massachusetts Trust Act. The bill seeks to restore the immigrant community’s trust in local law enforcement by limiting the…
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HIRC is now hiring for the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellowship! Applications for the 2014-2015 Fellowship will be reviewed on a rolling basis through February 15, 2014. See the HIRC website (www.harvardimmigrationclinic.org) for details. To apply, please send the following to hirc@law.harvard.edu as one PDF file with your last name in the…
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With gang and drug violence escalating in Central America, the U.S. is experiencing an increase in Central American asylum seekers. In a recent L.A. Times article, Deborah Anker, Director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC), argues that, “Central America is a war zone more violent than the days of the civil wars…But we’ve…
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Applications are now being accepted for the Cleary Gottlieb 2014 Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC). The summer fellow will work on cases involving direct representation of individuals from around the world seeking asylum and other humanitarian protections. The fellow may also work on appellate and policy advocacy at the local,…
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