Sameer Ashar to Join UCLA Law
UCLA School of Law has announced that immigration and clinical professor Sameer Ashar will join the law school as a professor of law and Vice Dean for Experiential Education.
Ashar comes from UC Irvine School of Law, where he is founder and co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic. The clinic represents clients in four Southern California counties, focusing on workers’ rights, deportation defense and immigration enforcement issues. At UCI Law, Ashar also teaches the first-year Legal Profession course and a seminar on law and social movements.
Ashar has published and presented widely on subjects including clinical practice and scholarship, race and the law, movement lawyering, civil liberties post-9/11 and immigration law. He has represented individuals in immigration and labor cases before numerous administrative bodies, as well as in state and federal courts.
In his new role at UCLA Law, Ashar will oversee the school’s robust Clinical and Experiential Program and work with Assistant Dean for Experiential Education Allison Korn to grow UCLA Law’s live-client clinics. In the last two years the law school has added clinics in immigration policy, veterans’ affairs, and documentary film and music law, building on a legacy of excellence dating back to the foundational work of leading clinical scholars, including David Binder and many others.
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