On November 4 from 12-1 pm EST, Program Director Sabi Ardalan will join Bill Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law and Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program, and Gerald Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, for a panel discussion on “Immigration and Detention Centers/Comparative…
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On August 27, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the appeal of Kenia Martinez-Mejia, a woman from El Salvador who came to the United States after fleeing gender-based and gang violence. Clinical students Benjamin Antillon Fernandez ’21 and Madeline Kane ’21 worked on an amicus brief submitted by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program on October 25, 2019.…
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Professor Deborah Anker: The History and Future of Gender Asylum Law and Recognition of Domestic Violence as a Basis for Protection in the United States Human Rights Magazine, April 2020 This article, featured in the April issue of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Magazine, discusses the past and current state of gender asylum law.…
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HIRC Director Sabi Ardalan breaks down the many issues with the new proposed rule on asylum.
HIRC Director Sabi Ardalan was one of the many Harvard community members who spoke with the Harvard Gazette about the recent DACA decision.
“‘Given the tough questions asked at oral argument, it wasn’t at all clear which way the court would come out,’ said Sabrineh Ardalan, director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical program, which provides legal help to immigrants. ‘This is such a critically important victory and recognition that the Trump administration’s efforts to end DACA…
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will block the Trump Administration’s misguided attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA, which was established by former President Barack Obama in 2012, provides protection against deportation and work authorization to over 600,000 individuals in the United States. “We applaud the Court’s…
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A Harvard Law School Today profile of Niku Jafarnia ’20, who participated in the Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Clinic and the Crimmigration Clinic.
HIRC Director Sabi Ardalan and Dr. Katherine Peeler of Physicians for Human Rights recently collaborated on this post on domestic violence survivors and asylum.
HIRC Director Sabi Ardalan recently published a post on the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law’s COVID-19 Watch Hub.