Community HeLP Clinic helps crime survivors with visas

The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic recently helped two clients with their preliminary approval for U Visas, which provide a path to lawful status for noncitizens who are the victims of serious crime and are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution. According to Jason A. Cade, the clinic’s director and holder of…

Community HeLP Clinic assists clients in obtaining citizenship

Congratulations to the Community Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Clinic for assisting two clients from Egypt with their citizenship cases. Third-year student Sarah A. Mirza and Onur Yildirim (J.D.’18) helped prepare the initial applications last year. Third-year student Amy E. Buice and second-year student William D. Ortiz worked to prepare the pair for their naturalization interviews…

Cade presents on enforcement policies at the southern border

Associate Professor Jason A. Cade  presented on the consequences of enforcement policies at the southern border for asylum-seekers and other migrants at the 2019 Emory International Law Review Symposium titled “Continued Relevance and Challenges of the 1951 Refugee Convention on Global, Regional, and Local Levels” during February.

Cade presents at Fordham University School of Law

Associate Professor Jason A. Cade presented “Sanctuaries as Equitable Delegation in an Era of Mass Immigration Enforcement” at the 2018 Cooper Walsh Colloquium titled “Remodeling Sanctuary: Urban Immigration in a New Era” held at Fordham University School of Law during November.

Community HeLP Clinic secures ruling to benefit disabled persons accessing DFCS programs

The law school’s Community Health Law Partnership Clinic recently achieved a significant administrative legal victory that could have far-reaching implications beyond their initial client who experiences a disability. In the December 2017 ruling, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated that the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services did not…