Credits: 6

Students serve as extern law clerk for the United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration Court. Students work in a clerkship capacity with an executive branch judge who presides in formal, quasi-judicial hearings in deportation, exclusion, removal, rescission and bond cases. Typical assignments include drafting decisions on applications for asylum, researching and writing memos on whether a particular criminal offense renders a person subject to removal, and drafting decisions on motions to reopen cases in which a final order has been issued. Students will develop research and writing skills and gain increased understanding of immigration law and procedure.