In summer 2013 the clinical law program plans to hire a number of law students to work in the various clinics in the Kane Center. Positions will be open for the following clinics:
Kristin Love is moving to Harlingen, Texas to open an office for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Harlingen is a city on the U.S./Mexico border, with the largest number of detained children anywhere in the United States.
On June 18th, Maria Woltjen, Director of the Young Center Clinic, appeared before the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland, to testify about the sale of children for labor.
During spring break, students from the Young Center Immigrant Child Advocacy Clinic traveled to Harlingen, Texas, a town on the U.S./Mexico border where over 350 immigrant children are currently detained. For the last two years, the Young Center has run a small pilot project to provide Child Advocates for children in custody in Har
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights sent a delegation to Capitol Hill to push for immigration reform. What follows is the account of that trip from Young Center clinic students Cathy Yang '13 and Peter Chen '13.
Cathy Yang and Peter Chen Go to Washington: Immigrant Children, Trafficking . . . and Abortion?
Prof. Maria Woltjen of the Law School’s Immigrant Child Advocacy Clinic and several of her students discuss their experiences over the past year, including work on a field report on human trafficking in China.
