Raha Jorjani was invited by the Asian American Bar Association Civil Rights and Public Law committees to participate in "Asians & Pacific Islanders, Immigrants, and the Criminal Justice System: A Conversation on Immigration Policy, Enforcement, Reform, and Professional Responsibility" on January 21
UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic students James Newman '14 and David Jefferson '14, working under the direction of Lecturer and Staff Attorney Holly Cooper, have succeeded in securing a bond for a clinic client who had been incarcerated since 1989.
Raha Jorjani provided a training session on "The Application of the Supreme Court's decisions in Moncrieffe and Descamps in Removal Proceedings" for the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on October 24.
Raha Jorjani was invited to UC Berkeley School of Law to participate in a panel on "Crimmigration," the convergence of immigration and incarceration, on October 24.
Raha Jorjani conducted a training session for Alameda County Juvenile Court Judges on October 4 in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro, California.
Holly S. Cooper spoke at the American Immigration Lawyers Association conference in Anaheim where she gave a presentation on the impact of two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Moncrieffe v. Holder and Descamps v. United States.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted en banc review in Mondaca-Vega v. Holder, an important citizenship case in which the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic filed an amicus brief.