Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic I

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Cardozo's Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic is an intensive, in-house, live-client clinic in which students represent immigrants in deportation and related proceedings. In addition, students have the opportunity to represent immigrant community-based organizations engaged in impact projects on cutting edge immigration issues. (This clinic is one of two different Cardozo immigration law clinics, the other being the semester- long Immigration Law Externship). The clinic's docket focuses on immigrants facing deportation because of encounters with the criminal justice system. The nation's harsh deportation laws are at their harshest when immigrants have criminal convictions. In the cases before the immigration courts, students may have the opportunity to conduct trials, examine witnesses, and draft and argue motions. In the deportation defense cases in federal court, students will have the opportunity to brief and possibly argue important questions of law that may impact, not only the lives of our clients, but all immigrants facing deportation in the jurisdiction. In house clinic. Note: This is a year-long course, split into Immigration Justice Clinic I (fall) and Immigration Justice Clinic II (spring).