By Viktoria Safarian (JD ‘17) Blog Post – Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic – Fall 2015 On July 24, 2015 Judge Dolly Gee, Federal District Court Judge for the Central District of California, ruled that the Department of Homeland Security violated the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) by detaining minors and their mothers in family…
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Note: The Cleary Gottlieb Fellowship is open to Harvard law students only. Other unpaid summer internships are available at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Please send a cover letter and resume to hirc@law.harvard,edu to apply. Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC). The summer fellow…
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By Christina Zuba, 2015 Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellow I am unbelievably grateful for the time I spent working as the Cleary Gottlieb Summer Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC). Throughout my summer at HIRC, I was challenged daily and learned so much about immigration law, the provision of legal services, and myself. …
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By Caitlin Marshall, 2015 Summer Intern I am an Australian final year Bachelor of Laws student studying at Charles Darwin University (CDU). This summer I was honoured to be selected to partake in an inaugural collaboration between CDU and the HIRC to experience not only the tenacity and commitment of the team at HIRC but to…
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Over the course of several months, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor Phil Torrey, along with HLS students Sima Atri ’15 and Brittany Llewellyn ’15 represented an indigenous woman from Guatemala fleeing from gang violence and seeking asylum in the Untied States. After hundreds of hours of interviewing the client, researching country conditions in Guatemala,…
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In a truly heart-wrenching case of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual violence, HIRC attorneys Maggie Morgan and John Willshire Carrera, along with student Phebe Philips, were able to declare a victory for Kristina, whose name has been changed for privacy reasons. Kristina was granted asylum this year by an Immigration Judge in Boston, after…
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The 2015 edition of Deborah Anker’s leading treatise, Law of Asylum in the United States, is now available here. View flyer to receive a 20% discount! Law of Asylum in the United States is the authoritative presentation of U.S. asylum law, long considered a must -have for practitioners, scholars, students and teachers. “Law of Asylum contains detailed research and…
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Learning to work collaboratively across cultures, think creatively about relationships between law and organizing, and handle the myriad of challenges working with vulnerable, migrant populations are only some of the benefits that U.S. and Indian law students gain by participating in the International and Comparative Human Rights Practicum program. Born out of a relationship between…
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Summer Legal Internship at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC). The legal intern will work on cases involving direct representation of individuals from around the world seeking asylum and other humanitarian protections. The legal intern may also work on appellate and policy advocacy at the…
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The asylum seekers currently detained in Karnes, Texas may be far away from Boston, but for students at Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC), the issues and work couldn’t be closer to home. This past winter break a group of Harvard law students spent part of their January term volunteering and providing pro-bono…
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