The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRCP) is inviting applications for the full-time position of Clinical Teaching Fellow. HIRCP litigates issues at the forefront of immigration and asylum law and at the intersection of criminal law and immigration, while also engaging students in policy advocacy, community outreach, and direct representation. HIRCP is comprised of…
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Learn more below about the fantastic interns working with our program this summer. We are so grateful for their hard work and dedication!
The Immigration & Refugee Clinic has a lengthy history of advocating for asylum for survivors of gender-based violence. The clinic’s work for more than 40 years has shaped the jurisprudence that attorneys around the country rely on. To qualify for protection, asylum seekers need to show they have a real fear of being harmed because…
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In February 2024, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program partnered with community advocates to hold its first-ever pro se asylum clinic for members of the Guinean community. As the political situation has deteriorated in Guinea, many have fled, arriving at the U.S. border seeking refuge. Bella Balde, the daughter of a former client of…
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When President Biden rescinded Trump’s infamous “Muslim Ban” executive order, he proclaimed that “those actions are a stain on our national conscience.” A mere three years later, President Biden has invoked § 212(f), the same provision used by Trump to implement his “Muslim Ban” for a new de facto asylum ban. The Harvard Immigration and…
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The report, “Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention, is a joint effort by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRCP), Arevik Avedian, Lecturer on Law and Director of Empirical Research Services at Harvard Law School, and researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS).…
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In 2021, the Biden administration established fast-tracked removal proceedings, known as the Dedicated Docket, targeting asylum-seeking families who recently arrived in the United States. This report analyzes the impact of the Dedicated Docket on asylum-seeking families in the Boston Immigration Court. The Boston Dedicated Docket is the largest in the country, with over 20,000 asylum…
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The Biden administration’s new rule, which took effect yesterday and has already been challenged in court, will unjustly prevent refugees from accessing protection at the southern border in violation of domestic and international law. The inhumane and unlawful rule will lead to the return of vulnerable refugees, including women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other survivors of…
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Our latest newsletter is now available! Our Program recently released our Summer 2022 newsletter, which provides updates from the last academic year and this summer. In this edition, we celebrated the Harvard Law School Class of 2022, shared recent policy advocacy and litigation efforts, highlighted case victories, welcomed new staff, and more. If you would…
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This spring, HIRC at GBLS concluded another successful semester with a victory for a longtime client, bringing to a close her fifteen-year fight to stay in the United States. Supervised by John Willshire and Nancy Kelly, Jonathan George ’23 and Connie Cheng ’23 worked on the asylum case of an indigenous Maya K’iche’ woman from…
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