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Immigration Law

Explore the breadth and depth of the USC Gould School of Law’s faculty expertise, research impact, thought leadership, and academic program offerings in immigration law.

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USC Immigration Clinic marks nearly 25 years of legal advocacy

USC Immigration Clinic marks nearly 25 years of legal advocacy

Clinic directors Niels Frenzen and Jean Reisz lead law students through changing immigration landscape.

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Asylum Achieved
JD student Jaya Loharuka stands outside and smiles at the camera.

Asylum Achieved

Immigration Clinic law student Jaya Loharuka wins a sensitive case for an Ethiopian woman seeking asylum in the U.S.

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From USC Law Magazine: Enterprising entrepreneur Alvin Salehi (JD 2013)
JD alumnus, Alvin Salehi, stands in front window and smiles at camera in a plaid shirt.

From USC Law Magazine: Enterprising entrepreneur Alvin Salehi (JD 2013)

Salehi co-founded Shef, an online marketplace for homemade food, to help immigrants (like his parents) earn a living selling home cooking in their local communities.

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Recent Research & Scholarship

  • “Questioning unaccompanied immigrant children: Lessons from developmental science on forensic interviewing” (with Jodi A. Quas), Society for Research in Child Development, Child Evidence Brief No. 6 (2019).

    January 15, 2020
  • Jean Reisz was honored with an appreciation award from Senator Kamala Harris for her outstanding commitment to providing legal assistance to immigrant communities and to her research and work on immigration.

    August 9, 2019
  • Dan Klerman was Session Chair for a Caltech Book Seminar on Ron Harris' "The Birth of the Business Corporation East and West: Eurasian Trade Institutions and their Migration, 1400-1700".

     

    Thank you.

    September 6, 2018