Immigration and Refugee Advocacy
Semester: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
This seminar addresses U.S. immigration and asylum law, as well as advocacy skills relevant to students’ work at the clinic. The skills component of the seminar addresses such areas as effective client interviewing, affidavit writing, trial preparation, policy advocacy, district court and appellate litigation, and amicus briefs. In order to cultivate best practices in student advocacy, this seminar draws heavily for instructional examples on students’ clinical experiences. It also allows students to connect their understanding of immigration and refugee law and lawyering skills to actual casework through consideration of specific issues of doctrine and policy implicated by students’ cases. Students will also have an opportunity to reflect critically on their experiences, models of advocacy, and social justice.
