UCLA Opens Immigration Clinic

UCLA School of Law has opened an Immigration Law Clinic (here).  The Immigration Clinic is a joint venture between the law school and Public Counsel’s Immigrants Rights Project (IRP). Students spend four hours each week in the classroom and an additional 8 hours per week on casework at IRP offices. The classroom portion of the course will include both substantive immigration law topics that are related to the student’s clinical work and skills training such as interviewing, research and writing declarations, fact development and some trial advocacy. Students engage in tasks such as client intake; preparation of asylum petitions, applications for relief under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Victim of Trafficking and Violent Crime Prevention Act (VTVPA); and possibly appearances before the asylum office and the immigration court.  The Clinic is limited to 12 students. The Immigration Law Clinic is taught by Professor Judy London.

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