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IMMIGRANT WORKERS' RIGHTS CLINIC (CLIN7156-57)
4 credits clinical component, 1
credit classroom component.
The Immigrant Workers' Rights Clinic provides
students the opportunity to represent immigrant workers in a
variety of matters that may include human rights-based claims to
protection under the Refugee and Torture Conventions, human
trafficking, and wage and hour claims related to employment.
Students will be actively involved in all stages of litigation
including researching human rights conditions in diverse
countries, interviewing and counseling clients, drafting
affidavits, researching and writing briefs, conducting
discovery, preparing and arguing pre-trial motions, preparing
witnesses for trial, examining witnesses (including experts) in
court, and settlement negotiations. In addition to direct client
representation, students may be involved in Know Your Rights
presentations and community outreach on issues impacting
immigrant workers in New Jersey. The classroom component
combines pre-trial and trial skills with substantive immigration
and labor law. The law clinic is open to day and evening
students who are the equivalent of a third year day student.
The course is letter-graded for both the clinical and
classroom components.
NOTE: The clinic fulfills the Trial Requirement if the student is
eligible to appear in court under the New Jersey Court Rules.
Students cannot participate in an externship in the same semester in
which they are enrolled in a clinic. |