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Sabrineh Ardalan

Sabrineh Ardalan is Clinical Professor of Law and director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. At the clinic, Ardalan supervises and trains law students working on applications for asylum and other humanitarian protections, as well as appellate litigation and policy advocacy. She has authored briefs submitted to the Board of Immigration Appeals, as well as to the federal district courts, circuit courts of appeal, and U.S. Supreme Court on cutting edge issues in U.S. asylum law. She also oversees and collaborates closely with the clinic’s social work staff. She teaches courses on immigration and refugee law and advocacy, as well as on trauma, refugees, and the law, and on international labor migration. Prior to her work with the clinic, Ardalan clerked for Hon. Michael A. Chagares of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Hon. Raymond J. Dearie, district judge for the Eastern District of New York. She previously served as the Equal Justice America fellow at The Opportunity Agenda, where she worked on advocacy around a right to health care under U.S. and international law and as a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in history and international studies from Yale College.

Immigration Blog Essay

Re-setting Gender-Based Asylum Law

December 30, 2021 The United States has long recognized the duty to protect refugees and prevent their return to persecution or torture. Indeed, the United States is...
  • Sabrineh Ardalan
  • Deborah Anker
Immigration Blog Essay

Refugee Protection at Risk: Remain in Mexico and Other Efforts to Undermine the U.S. Asylum System

May 26, 2019 For the past year, the Trump administration has been hard at work trying to unilaterally rewrite asylum law.  Its latest attempt, the so-called Migrant...
  • Sabrineh Ardalan
Civil Rights Blog Essay

The Overlooked Legal Challenge to Trump’s Travel Ban

April 23, 2018 The third version of the Travel Ban (“EO-3”)—also known as the Muslim Ban—added two non-Muslim countries to the list, but that by no means...
  • Sabrineh Ardalan
  • Philip L. Torrey
  • Fatma Marouf

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