LAW 768 Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic
The Clinic will be designed to give students practical experience working on a variety of immigration matters related to refugees and asylees who have faced human rights violations. Students will be responsible for all aspects of case management for the matters assigned to them. Responsibilities include meeting with clients, performing intake interviews, analyzing cases for legal remedy, gathering evidence, drafting and filing applications and briefs and maintaining client correspondence. Students will have the opportunity to observe and participate in federal administrative hearings before the Dept. of Homeland Security and immigration courts. Students will represent clients in immigration matters before federal administrative agencies under the supervision of the professor/counsel. The focus of the clinic will be refugee and asylee legal services. Typically these will involve applications for permanent residence, citizenship applications, family reunification petitions, travel and employment authorization, and applications for asylum. Students will be awarded a grade on a Pass/Fail basis. The clinic has no examination component. Student assessment will be based on a combination of casework performance and class participation. The principle research materials required for the clinic are currently available through existing on-line materials. All clinical courses at the law school are subject to a "no drop" policy. This means that after the course registration period has closed, students will be permitted to drop a clinical course only with the permission of the clinical faculty.
Prerequisite
Students must have completed all of the first-year requirements and must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in Professional Responsibility.