Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—In Jennings, the Court will consider both statutory and constitutional challenges to the government’s ability to detain certain individuals without providing them the opportunity to be released on bond.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—Through direct representation, our clinic, along with others, has helped shape the thinking of decision-makers, changed the culture of legal institutions, and put pressure on higher level decision-makers.

From Harvard Law Today—In many ways, Jane’s life in Kenya was idyllic. She was an educated, confident professional woman with a flourishing career. She owned her own perfume business, and was four months into a prestigious new job in the banking sector.

From The Gleaner—In 2016, Malene decided to pursue an LLM at Harvard, but she maintained a close connection to human rights practice through her work with the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The clinic filed a request for a hearing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to discuss the human rights situation of refugee claimants under the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The sweeps have resulted in several hundred arrests across the country, and it is believed that approximately 50 people were arrested in Massachusetts.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The new travel ban, like the previous ones, exceeds the President’s authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as HIRC set forth in an amicus brief filed last week.

From Harvard Law Today—When the Trump administration announced on Sept. 5 that it intended to upend the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which has banned deportation of many young immigrants, the move seemed to set a general course for what would come next.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—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.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The Report contains extensive recommendations regarding the United States’ historical role in protecting vulnerable refugees, safeguarding foreign policy interests, advancing American job creation, and complying with humanitarian and legal obligations.

From Harvard Law Today—Sabrineh Ardalan ’02 has been appointed assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. She was formerly a lecturer on law at HLS.

From Harvard Law Today—A number of Harvard Law students from the Class of 2017 received special awards during the 2017 Class Day ceremony on May 24. They were recognized for outstanding leadership, citizenship, compassion and dedication to their studies and the profession.

From Harvard Law Today—Mana Azarmi ’17 is the winner of the Outstanding Clinical Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

From the Harvard Law Bulletin—It began with the stroke of a pen: President Donald Trump’s signature on a January executive order banned entry into the U.S. by people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Travelers were detained at airports. Students were unable to return to their schools.

From the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—As a former Capitol Hill staffer, I was accustomed to drafting talking points. For nearly three years, I wrote “TPs” on foreign policy, defense, and veterans’ issues, including my boss’ favorite vocabulary words so that his voice would come through in press conferences and Senate hearings.

By Marissa Yu, J.D. ’17, and Zoe Egelman, J.D. ’18—HIRC co-authored a brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) on the “material support” bar to asylum, arguing that the word “material” must be given independent meaning in order to ensure that victims of terrorism are not unfairly denied humanitarian protection.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—“Welcome home, Mr. Kim.” My heart still flutters whenever I come back to the United States after a trip abroad and the Customs and Border Protection officer welcomes me home.

From the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—The Crimmigration Clinic filed an amicus curiae brief in support of a lawsuit arguing that it is unlawful for state law enforcement agencies to arrest and detain an individual in Massachusetts solely for immigration enforcement purposes.

By Jin Kim, J.D. ’18—When the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights began its emergency hearing yesterday, the room was packed. There were private citizens, state officials, journalists, and representatives from the civil society organizations, all there to discuss the effects of President Trump’s executive orders.

From The Harvard Crimson—Two students from the Immigration and Refugee Clinic argued that the United States was no longer a “safe country” for refugees before the Inter-American Committee on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic—Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Grants Joint Request by US and Canadian Advocates and Academics to Participate in Emergency Hearing on Executive Orders.