Sabrineh Ardalan

Faculty Lead
Clinical Professor of Law Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Email: sardalan@law.harvard.edu
Profile  

Institution:
Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Harvard Law School

Interests:
U.S. asylum and refugee law; international refugee and human rights law; immigration enforcement and due process; trauma, credibility, and evidence in asylum adjudication; gender‑based and family‑based persecution; labor migration; clinical legal education and interdisciplinary advocacy​

Description:
Sabrineh Ardalan is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, where she supervises students representing asylum seekers and other immigrants in trial‑level and appellate litigation, policy advocacy, and impact work challenging barriers to protection. She teaches courses on immigration, U.S. asylum law, international refugee law, international labor migration, and trauma and refugees, and has authored influential amicus briefs on cutting‑edge asylum issues submitted to the Board of Immigration Appeals, federal courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002), she previously clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and has helped lead national responses to restrictive asylum and border policies while developing interdisciplinary models that integrate social work into immigrant representation