Holly Cooper Travels to Greece to Provide Legal Aid to Syrian Refugees

Holly Cooper, Associate Director of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, was part of a group of international and Greek lawyers who travelled to the Greek island of Samos to provide legal aid to Syrian refugees.  About 65,000 refugees are trapped in Greece, with about 1,200 living in a camp outside Samos City. 

Cooper joined a team that included lawyers from Reed Smith and the Greek nongovernmental organization Metadrasi.  They supported Metadrasi in its effort to identify durable solutions for unaccompanied children, monitor conditions in camps, advocate for vulnerable populations (elders, the disabled, women), and develop legal frameworks to ensure that the EU-Turkey deal created to tackle the migrant crisis is implemented in ways that conform to international and Greek law.