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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.

 
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