Clarissa Lehne ’18 and Paulina Arnold ’18 worked in the Crimmigration Clinic on a brief to assist a lawful permanent resident facing deportation for a minor crime. The brief helped win the man his release, and the victory has important implications for other immigrants, says Lehne.
Harvard Magazine’s profile on Phil Torrey and the Crimmigraiton Clinic.
HIRC Assistant Director Sabi Ardalan breaks down the term “particular social group.”
“‘He could be repealing sixty to seventy per cent of asylum jurisprudence,’ Deborah Anker, an immigration expert at Harvard Law School, told me, speaking about Sessions, before the decision was announced. ‘Its ramifications are extraordinary.’”
Jeffrey S. Chase, a New York City immigration lawyer and former Immigration Judge, argues against expedited removal in his post, “Expedited Removal is Not the Answer to the Backlog”: “If the criminal court system were to be flooded to the breaking point, the solution could not be to let supervisory police officers decide which defendants…
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PRESS RELEASE HIRC Requests Hearing on Canada’s Treatment of Refugees from Inter-American Commission on Human Rights On October 4, 2017, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) filed a request for a hearing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to discuss the human rights situation of refugee claimants under the Safe Third…
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For the past two summers, HIRC student Brianna Rennix (JD ’18) has traveled to Texas to represent mothers and children struggling to obtain humanitarian protection. As a part of the CARA Pro Bono Project, Brianna worked alongside immigration lawyers to provide free legal aid to women and children at family detention centers. Read about her…
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(This article was originally posted on jeffreyschase.com by Jeffrey S. Chase. Jeffrey is a former Immigration Judge and senior legal advisor at the Board of Immigration Appeals.) An Amicus brief was recently filed with the BIA on behalf of seven former immigration judges (including myself) and a former BIA board member in the case of…
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. The Fellow will work primarily on cases of individuals seeking asylum and other humanitarian protections, as well as on policy advocacy and appellate litigation. Applicants are requested to submit to Jordana Arias (hirc@law.harvard.edu) the following materials: a…
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