HIRC was thrilled to partner with the Harvard DACA Seminar for various events over the past few weeks. On Friday, March 2nd, HIRC Director Deborah Anker and Assistant Director Sabi Ardalan took part in “Legal Strategies for Fighting Back: A Conversation with Top Immigration Lawyers.” On Monday, March 5th, HIRC attorneys Jason Corral and Cindy…
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On February 23, HIRC’s assistant director Sabrineh Ardalan took part in the New York Law School’s Immigration and Asylum Conference. Sabi participated in a discussion on particular social groups. The conversation explored the BIA and federal court developments refining the concept of persecution on account of membership in a particular social group. She was joined by Dree Collopy,…
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On January 27th, a group of Harvard students held the inaugural human rights symposium Human Rights: Adapting to the Challenges of Our Times at the Kennedy School of Government. The Symposium was an opportunity for activists, scholars, and students to come together to discuss the challenges, and potential collaborations, for human rights movements across the globe. HIRC…
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Harvard Law School Case Studies recently published a new case study that focused on the work of HIRC’s Assistant Director Sabrineh Ardalan. The case study has students play various roles in a legislative simulation before the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. You can download a free copy here. When asked why she chose to do…
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Interns will work primarily at Harvard during the summer months on Clinic cases of individuals seeking asylum and other humanitarian protections, as well as on policy advocacy and appellate litigation. Applicants are requested to submit the following…
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Join the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change for “Turkey and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Responses and Perspectives” on Tuesday, January 30th from 12 – 1 pm. Since 2011, Turkey has received more than 3 million Syrian refugees, the largest community of Syrians displaced by the conflict. This has had significant economic, political, security, social,…
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This fellowship will provide an opportunity for an attorney to work at HIRC on direct representation of individuals applying for asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection, starting in the summer of 2018. The Fellow, who will be housed at Harvard Law School, will assist with the supervision of clinical students and work closely with experienced…
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On December 1, HIRC and a diverse group of campus organizations hosted an event with Mervat Jumhawee, Advocacy Officer from the El Hassan Workers’ Center in Jordan. Students and staff gathered for a discussion on the intersection of trade agreements, labor migration corridors, and different social change. Founded in 2012, the El Hassan Workers’ Center has…
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Last week, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program filed two amicus briefs in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits to challenge President Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban. The briefs were written in collaboration with Fatma Marouf (HLS ’02), Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University…
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Jeffrey S. Chase, a New York City immigration lawyer and former Immigration Judge, argues against expedited removal in his post, “Expedited Removal is Not the Answer to the Backlog”: “If the criminal court system were to be flooded to the breaking point, the solution could not be to let supervisory police officers decide which defendants…
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