Duke Law Opens New Immigrant Rights Clinic
By The Duke University School of Law has announced a new clinic to be housed at the law school. The Immigrant Rights Clinic will be Duke’s 11th clinical program and will offer students the opportunity to develop critical professional skills and knowledge while providing free legal services to immigrants who could not otherwise afford a lawyer. Supervised by clinic faculty, student-attorneys will have the opportunity to primarily represent individuals seeking asylum or facing deportation. The clinic aims to engage students in cutting-edge work from grassroots community empowerment efforts to litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. In doing so, the Immigrant Rights Clinic will partner closely with the local immigration bar and immigrant rights organizations.
Duke Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic will be run by Kate Evans, who recently joined the Duke Law faculty as a clinical director and professor. In addition to numerous accolades, Ms. Evans graduated magna cum laude from NYU Law, where she won the dean’s award for exceptional work in NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. Ms. Evans now brings her depth of experience and passion for immigration work to Duke.
Duke Law students will be able to enroll in the clinic for the spring 2020 semester.