via: Harvard Magazine “THIS IS MY CAUSE,” thought Deborah Anker, M.A.T. ’70, LL.M. ’84, upon her first encounter with immigration law. A second-generation American whose Jewish grandparents crossed the Atlantic to escape the Holocaust, she got her start at a Boston-based refugee-assistance organization, where she worked for a few years after earning her law…
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This past August, HIRC’s Sabi Ardalan traveled to Australia to help Charles Darwin University (CDU) in Australia’s Northern Territory set up their own clinical program. Jeswynn Yogaratnam, a law lecturer at CDU, initiated the plan for an immigration and refugee law clinic in hopes of training a new generation of humanitarian lawyers while addressing increasing demand for legal services as rising numbers of…
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Congratulations to Nancy Kelly and John Willshire Carrera, co-managing directors of HIRC at Greater Boston Legal Services, who recently won the Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence for their exceptional teaching and mentoring of students at Harvard Law School and for their leadership in developing child asylum and gender-based asylum law, as well as indigenous…
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Via the Harvard Gazette Law School immigration counseling program helps the powerless while educating students October 14, 2014 | Editor’s Pick Popular By Jack Minch, Harvard Correspondent Harvard Law School students with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) were working with Greater Boston Legal Services on a case involving a Guatemalan man in…
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By Joey Michalakes, JD ’16 This past summer, I had the enormous honor of working as the Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC). Over the course of a very busy but thrilling three months, my work at HIRC provided a comprehensive introduction to the world of immigration legal services. …
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Via Harvard Law Today The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a ground-breaking decision yesterday that recognized domestic violence as a basis for asylum. The court’s decision in Matter of A-R-C-G– reflects years of work by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) and other advocates around the country who have pushed for the recognition…
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Summer is coming to an end, but the fight to pass the Massachusetts Trust Act continues. For most of the past year, the Harvard Immigration Project (HIP) has had the privilege of membership in the coalition of organizations working to end local law enforcement compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, or “ICE holds.” …
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This July, the HIRC staff at Greater Boston Legal Services joined New Bedford-based Organizacion Maya K’iche and the Council for Ethnic Communities Runujel Junam (CERJ) to host series of events for the Mayan community of Massachusetts. Spread over 10 days, “500 Years of Genocide and Racism Against the Indigenous Mayan Community,” included a mix of…
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Maggie Morgan is the new Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She is an alumna of both the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) and Harvard Law School. Maggie worked most recently as a Clinical Fellow in the Health Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.…
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This month HIRC says goodbye to Emily Leung, who has served as the Albert M. Sacks Clinical & Advocacy Fellow for the last three years and as a clinical volunteer for an additional year before that. A skilled teacher, fierce advocate, and loyal friend, Emily has left an indelible mark on the clinic, her colleagues, and her…
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