Kimberlie Orr is a Term Teaching Professor and Staff Attorney at Notre Dame Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic, where she directs the Clinic’s work on global religious persecution and immigration.  Her research examines the protection of freedom of religion or belief across constitutional, comparative, and international law and how these legal frameworks intersect with refugee and asylum law. She teaches international human rights law and U.S. immigration law and supervises students engaged in asylum representation, international advocacy, and policy research.

Her international work has included supporting the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and developing policy research for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. She entered federal service through the Department of Justice Honors Program as a judicial law clerk with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. She later served as an asylum officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and as an immigration policy analyst in the Office of Regulatory Affairs at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

She earned her B.A. and J.D. from Brigham Young University and a Master of Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in international forced displacement policy and minoring in peace studies. She also completed the International Center for Law and Religion Studies’ Religion and the Rule of Law certificate program at the University of Oxford.