By Michelle Ha, J.D. ’16 via Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs Through my experience in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) this semester, I had the privilege of representing an incredible woman named Juana* in her application for asylum in the United States. Juana fled gang violence in Central America with her young daughter…
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For the past six months, 23-year-old Alex Kleemann has worked countless hours with undocumented immigrants ages six to seventeen, learning their stories and teaching them about their rights at the South Texas Pro-Bono Asylum Representation Project (also known as ProBar). Yet a year earlier, Kleemann would not have been able to guess that immigration law…
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via the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs By Nathan MacKenzie, J.D. ’17 Nathan MacKenzie, J.D. ’17 pictured (first one from the right), with a team of lawyers and client at the Supreme Court in Israel Sometimes the best way to better understand your own world is to visit another. Doing so gives you…
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We are sitting across from each other, watching a rainy afternoon through the window of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic’s offices in Wasserstein Hall. Suddenly, Henry* thinks of a new anecdote to tell. This one, he explains, is about his time in jail while he was still living in Cameroon. “I was there for…
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By Emma Rekart (JD ‘17) Blog Post – Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic – Fall 2015 By the time asylum seekers enter the United States, they have already faced extraordinary struggles. They have fled their home countries because they feared for their safety or the safety of their families, and have come to America in…
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By Viktoria Safarian (JD ‘17) Blog Post – Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic – Fall 2015 On July 24, 2015 Judge Dolly Gee, Federal District Court Judge for the Central District of California, ruled that the Department of Homeland Security violated the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) by detaining minors and their mothers in family…
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Note: The Cleary Gottlieb Fellowship is open to Harvard law students only. Other unpaid summer internships are available at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Please send a cover letter and resume to hirc@law.harvard,edu to apply. Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC). The summer fellow…
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I spent this summer with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. My entire undergraduate career at Harvard College has revolved around grand philosophical questions of citizenship. I have grappled with questions like what makes a citizen a citizen? What is a citizen? How does one acquire citizenship status? Is there even a single citizenship status? While…
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By Christina Zuba, 2015 Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellow I am unbelievably grateful for the time I spent working as the Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC). Throughout my summer at HIRC, I was challenged daily and learned so much about immigration law, the provision of legal services, and myself. …
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Philip Torrey, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC), has carved out a space in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic for a unique and evolving area of law called crimmigration. “Crimmigration is a dynamic and growing field of law that concerns the intersection of criminal law…
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