Clinical Experience Paves The Way – Congratulations to the 2021 Skadden Fellows!
Former participants in our program Jessica Zhang ’19 and Mahroh Jahangiri ’21 will be Skadden Fellows in 2021.
2020 Newsletter now available
Want to get the latest news from the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program? Check out our latest newsletter here. In this newsletter, we have updates on policy advocacy and litigation efforts, student and staff achievements, case victories, and more. If you would like to sign up to receive our newsletter via email, you can sign…
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Prepared for the Challenge
Read the stories of four HIRC alumni who are continuing to advocate for the rights of asylum-seekers and immigrants.
HLS Alumni and Local Experts Gather for “Hackathon” on Sanctuary Spaces
On April 20th, dozens of HLS alumni and local experts came together to develop model protective policies for sanctuary spaces in the Age of Trump. They considered questions such as: What types of protective strategies can these different institutions employ? What are the legal limits on how far those policies can go? How would protective…
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The Overlooked Legal Challenge to Trump’s Travel Ban
Fatma Marouf, Phil Torrey and Sabi Ardalan on the legal challenges to the Travel Ban.
HIRC files amicus briefs on travel ban 3.0
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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Albert F. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellowship Opportunity at the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinical Program
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Program is currently accepting applications for the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellowship. The fellowship will provide an opportunity for an attorney to work on direct representation of individuals applying for asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection, starting in the summer of 2017. The Fellow, who will be housed…
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Connecting back to my own humanity
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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Congrats recent graduates, and good luck on the bar!
With the upcoming bar examination, we wanted to shed light on what some of our graduates have been up to since graduation. Since graduating in May, our alumni are off to start some exciting adventures. From fellowships, to clerkships, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical program (HIRC) and Harvard Immigration Project (HIP) graduates are taking on…
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Alumni Interview with Fatma Marouf
Fatma Marouf received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002. She now teaches immigration law and international human rights law at the William S. Boyd School of Law and is Co-Director of the school’s Immigration Clinic. Marouf attended Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program’s 30th Anniversary Conference in June, and is one of the alumni we interviewed. Why…
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