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Lori Nessel

Lori Nessel

Professor Lori A. Nessel joined Seton Hall in 1995 and is Dean's Fellow and Director of the Center for Social Justice. She regularly teaches immigration and refugee law courses and supervises live cases in the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic, including claims under the Refugee Convention, Torture Convention, as well as cases involving human trafficking, family reunification and other forms of relief from deportation. She has also been actively involved in designing the new International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project and is one of the principle faculty members engaged in the Haiti Rule of Law Project.

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Case-Digests-CSJ Wins Asylum for Mother of Twins

CSJ Students Win Asylum for Mother of Newborn Twins Convicted of Mail Fraud for Cheating on her Driver's Exam
 
February, 2008 - CSJ students Jason Weber and Joseph Fanning won an asylum case in New York Immigration Court. The client was a 29 year-old woman from Afghanistan married to a United States citizen and the mother of four United States children including newborn twins. Although she was a lawful permanent resident since 1999, the Department of Homeland Security placed her in removal proceedings because she had been convicted of mail fraud after cheating on her driver's license test. The client, however, was from Kandahar where in 2001, the Taliban murdered her father and brother in a blood feud forcing her mother and remaining siblings to flee to Pakistan where they still live today live as refugees.