Research on U.S. Asylum Law
Deborah Anker, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, will be hiring assistant and senior research assistants to update the 2026 edition of Law of Asylum in the United States, the leading treatise on U.S. asylum law. The roles of each are described below.
Professor Anker is a prominent attorney and scholar in the field of U.S. refugee law who has published the treatise for more than two decades.
For the past two editions Professor Anker has co-authored the treatise with Jeffrey S. Chase. Among other roles and activities related to U.S. asylum law, Mr. Chase, as founder of the Round Table of Former Immigration Judges, has served in an amicus capacity in impact litigation relating to asylum and Convention Against Torture protection.
Assistant Research Assistant (ARA):
Responsibilities: ARAs will draft memoranda describing developments in the law, and offering their ideas for incorporating those developments into an assigned chapter in a manner consistent with the structure and content of the treatise.
Weekly time commitments are flexible; researchers average ten hours per week from September through November.
ARA application requirements: Submit a resume via email to cloizides@law.harvard.edu by end-of-day October 10th, 2025. Please list any prior immigration experience, or reasons for your interest in this field, in an optional statement of interest (100 – 150 words). Please only apply if you can adhere to the overall time commitment. Prior experience with asylum or immigration law is helpful but not required.