Meet Our Summer 2024 Interns
Learn more below about the fantastic interns working with our program this summer. We are so grateful for their hard work and dedication!
Immigration Clinic Presents Oral Arguments in Fourth Circuit
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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Alumni Updates from HIRCP
It’s been a while since we’ve focused on alumni pursuits, so we’re excited to highlight a few Program graduates who are working in immigration law or related fields. Shuting Chen ’09 A graduate of the clinic in 2009, Shuting Chen was appointed as an Immigration Judge for the San Francisco Immigration Court in October…
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Roslindale Pro Se Asylum Clinic
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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2024 Graduating Student Awards and Reflections
2024 Graduating Student Awards and Reflections As we reach Commencement 2024, we want to highlight and celebrate the incredible graduating students who make up the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program community, both in the Immigration and Refugee Clinic and the Crimmigration Clinic as well as the Harvard Law School Immigration Project (HIP). These impressive…
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Staff Updates
We are thrilled to share more about two of our more recent new hires, Eleni Bakst and Michelle Schellinger Gutierrez. Read more about Eleni and Michelle below! Eleni Bakst is our newest Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She supervises and trains students in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and…
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HIRCP Summer 2022 Newsletter
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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Reflections on HIRC from the Class of 2022
Today, we prepare to say good-bye to students from the Harvard Law School Class of 2022 who have participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Our graduating clinical students have contributed immensely to HIRC’s work, from assembling humanitarian-based relief immigration applications to drafting district court complaints and appeals briefs to engaging in class action…
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Henry Beshar and Stacey Menjivar receive 2022 Clinical Legal Education Association Awards
Stacey Menjivar ’22 won a CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Award for her work with HIRC and the Cyberlaw Clinic.
Gina Starfield wins 2022 David Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award
HIRC and HIP graduating clinical student Gina Starfield was awarded the 2022 David Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award.