Following its second victory, the Harvard Immigration Project’s (HIP) Bond Hearing Project continues its new campaign to provide free legal representation to detained immigrants seeking release from immigration custody. The project’s purpose is to both educate students and serve the immigrant community. At both hearings, teams of HLS students, led by Bond Hearing Project co-directors…
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The following post was written by Mary Triick, a current 3L HLS student who worked with HIRC for multiple semesters. She writes here about the value of working with asylum-seekers at the Clinic: I started working with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at the beginning of my second year of law school. As I…
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The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program & Harvard Law School & Lambda Present: Invisible Refugees: Forced Migration of Sexual & Gender Minorities Many of the world’s forced migrants are escaping persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Long invisible to the humanitarian community, these vulnerable individuals often hide from the…
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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT DETENTION FELLOWSHIP [IRP-26] American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants’ Rights Project, NY & CA For more than 92 years, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), has been at the forefront of virtually every major battle for civil liberties and equal justice in this country. Principled and nonpartisan, the ACLU has…
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Two announcements from two great immigration clinics: Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic Staff Attorney The Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School invites applicants for a staff attorney position with its Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (“IRC”). The Staff Attorney will join the thriving clinical community at Stanford Law School where, together with the clinical faculty…
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Join HIRC & HIP to meet Ira Kurzban in person at HLS, where he’s speaking at Prof. Anker’s Immigration Law: Policy and Social Change course this Thursday! HIP is hosting a meet & greet with drinks from 7-8pm, WCC 3019. J.D. and M.A., University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Kurzban is a partner in the law firm…
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