Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic I

Catalog description

Students in Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic I will provide direct legal services to immigrant communities and create related advocacy materials, such as public-facing presentations. Clinic students will likely be focused on collaborative projects and individual cases on behalf of DACA and undocumented communities and/or immigrants in detention. Students will learn relevant substantive immigration law and develop practical skills including client interviewing and counseling; legal analysis and persuasive and/or predictive research and writing; and case management and partner work. Students may have the opportunity to travel for casework and/or visit immigration detention centers. This Clinic is open to 2L and 3L students and runs concurrently with the 1L Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic; 2Ls and 3Ls may work in teams with 1Ls. Enrollment is by application only.