Read the Testimonials of HIRC Alumni
For the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, alumni of the clinic shared Testimonials. Check them out!
For the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, alumni of the clinic shared Testimonials. Check them out!
Congratulations to Eva Bitran ’14, HIRC alumna and former co-President of the Harvard Immigration Project (HIP)! Her note for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, “Boumedine at the Border? The Constitution and Foreign Nationals at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” was cited in an important ruling released yesterday from the United States Court of Appeals for…
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Look out for Deborah Anker’s 2014 treatise on asylum law, published this year and now available to purchase! The seventh edition of the leading treatise, Law of Asylum in the United States, is available at http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/Law-of-Asylum-in-the-United-States-2014-ed/p/100251917. This comprehensive treatise covers asylum, withholding and Convention against torture law in the United States, integrating international sources and perspectives.…
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Marina Basseas is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, and like Ryan Kurtz, she also spent time at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. In continuing with our recent profiling of this year’s HLS graduates, we asked her a few questions about her time at the clinic. She also shared her plans for next year! Here…
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Congrats to the clinic for winning this asylum case! via The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs An elderly couple, who suffered attacks and repeated threats at the hands of radical Muslims, escaped to the United States and sought asylum. With the help of students Ryan Kurtz, J.D. ’14, Christopher Liedl, J.D. ’14,…
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Congratulations to HIRC alumna, Maryum Jordan, J.D. ’14, for winning the Outstanding Clinical Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). The award is presented annually to one student from each law school for his/her outstanding clinical coursework and contributions to the clinical community. Maryum was nominated by Clinical Professor of Law Tyler Giannini,…
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Tomorrow, on JUNE 17, 2014, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic will be hosting it’s 30th Anniversary Celebration Conference! We are celebrating 30 years of HIRC’s accomplishments, reflected in individual representation of nearly a thousand immigrants, training of hundreds of students, ground-breaking administrative and federal court litigation, scholarship, as well as advocacy on local, national and…
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Congratulations to the recent graduates of the Class of 2014! Some of these graduates spent time working on immigration issues. These students received awards for student citizenship and leadership as well as for an astounding total of 341,951 pro bono hours! Here are the recipients: Below: Student recipients of the Dean’s Awards for Community Leadership Lisa Michelle Lana, who…
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Samuel Weiss, J.D. ’14 tells us about his time with the Crimmigration Clinic and mentor Phil Torrey, Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law. via: Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs Commencement Newsletter While the idea of focusing immigration enforcement on folks with criminal convictions has intuitive appeal, in the Crimmigration Clinic we got to…
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Congratulations to Jessica Frisina, J.D. ’14! Jessica participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic during the Fall of 2012. While at the Clinic, she worked on a Honduran domestic violence case and her client was later granted asylum. She also assisted with a Rwandan genocide survivor case. Having recently graduated, HIRC wishes her all the best in her future endeavors!…
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