Amagda Pérez, Director of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic and Executive Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, will be honored with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center's 2012 Phillip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Lawyering Award at the ILRC's annual awards dinner on May 17.
King Hall faculty, students, and alumni are participating in a series of naturalization workshops this month, bringing free legal assistance to community members with immigration-related issues in Sacramento and the northern Central Valley.
Holly S. Cooper, lecturer and staff attorney with the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, commented for New American Media on the difficulties of providing legal aid to prisoners in immigration detention who are held in solitary confinement.
Holly S. Cooper, lecturer and staff attorney with the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, spoke at the UC Haiti Initiative's panel discussion on "Rebuilding Haiti" at UC Davis on January 26, reflecting on the two-year anniversary of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
Raha Jorjani traveled to Kingston, Jamaica on January 15-18 in order to meet with government officials, faculty at the University of the West Indies, and deportees from the United States in order to address issues of reintegration and reabsorption of deportees in receiving countries.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a government Petition for Rehearing, motion to dismiss, and motion to vacate the precedential ruling in Singh v. Holder, an Immigration Law Clinic case that set a new standard of proof in certain immigration bond hearings.
Holly S. Cooper, lecturer and staff attorney with the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, and Anel Carrasco '11 have published an article in Prison Legal News.
King Hall students Carla Castaneda '13 and Patricija Petrac '13, working under the direction of UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic Supervising Attorney Raha Jorjani, succeeded last week in ending deportation proceedings in the case of a client who is a domestic violence victim and the single mother of a citizen child.
