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Diana Khleif (LL.M.’14), who now teaches at Hebron University at Palestine, credits her career success to Georgetown Law and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS), the London program she participated in during Spring 2013. Khleif participated in CTLS's 10th anniversary event in London on November 30, 2018. (Photos by Dolly Clew for CTLS/Georgetown Law.)

“My Country Is Not My Limit”: Center for Transnational Legal Studies is Shaping Lives, Careers

January 28, 2019 Faculty Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law Our Alumni

Diana Khleif (LL.M.’14) was studying law at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem when she joined the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London in Spring 2013. CTLS was created by Georgetown Law and nine partner law schools around the globe to provide students and faculty with an international, comparative and transnational law experience unlike any other.

April McClain-Delaney (L'89) and John Delaney (L'88)(left) with family and Georgetown Law students/faculty in Dilley, Texas, in early January, helping families seeking asylum. Fourth from left: Silvia Calderon (L'19), Nikki Endsley (L'19), Sabiya Ahamed (L'20), Austin Rose (L'21), Amelia Theisen (L'19), Professor Brian Wolfman, Atid Kimelman (L'19), Desiree Luckey (L'19), Ana Builes (L'21); (front row) Kristen Blosser (L'20) and Dilley Pro Bono staff. (Photo above courtesy of the Delaneys; before meeting with asylum seekers, students participated in an orientation, below; photos by Darren Abate/AP Images for Georgetown Law.)

Georgetown Law Students, Faculty, Alumni Assist Migrants Seeking Asylum in U.S.

January 23, 2019 Clinics Human Rights & Immigration

The South Texas Family Residential Center in remote Dilley, Texas, is hard to find and hard to get to. Located 80 miles southwest of San Antonio, it is the largest family detention center in the United States, with capacity for 2,400 women and children awaiting the possibility of an asylum hearing.

L. Francis Cissna (L’95), director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, delivered the keynote address at the 15th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference at Georgetown Law on October 1.

2018 Immigration Law and Policy Conference Examines Changing Landscape

October 9, 2018 Human Rights & Immigration

Since the 2016 presidential campaign, immigration is at the forefront of the nation’s consciousness — most recently, with respect to family separations and zero-tolerance policies at the border.

Hina Jilani, the former UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, delivered the Drinan Lecture on "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis" at Georgetown Law on October 3.

Hina Jilani, 2018-2019 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Speaks on “Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis”

October 4, 2018 Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law

Contemporary threats to security — noted Hina Jilani, the 2018-2019 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Georgetown Law — go far beyond wars between states.

At the National Press Club, Hope for Missing Journalist Austin Tice (F’02, L’13)

August 15, 2018 Human Rights & Immigration Our Alumni

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia has many pictures in his office — including one of a young Georgetown graduate, Austin Tice, at Commencement 2002. The six-foot-two former Marine Corps captain, who had just received his diploma from Georgetown’s…

More than 90 refugee and migration judges from approximately 30 countries gathered at Georgetown Law August 1-5. Professor from Practice Andrew Schoenholtz (right) spoke on a panel on building resilient asylum systems.

Building Resilience in an “Unprecedented Crisis of Displacement”: From Around the World, Refugee and Migration Judges Come to Georgetown Law

August 13, 2018 Clinics Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law

More than 90 refugee and migration judges from approximately 30 countries gathered at Georgetown Law in August, and with crushing caseloads and lives often in the balance, the issues were critical.

In this file photo from April, Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal faces the press on the steps of the Supreme Court after oral arguments in Trump v. Hawaii. The Court decided the case June 26.

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“My Country Is Not My Limit”: Center for Transnational Legal Studies is Shaping Lives, Careers

Georgetown Law Students, Faculty, Alumni Assist Migrants Seeking Asylum in U.S.

2018 Immigration Law and Policy Conference Examines Changing Landscape

Hina Jilani, 2018-2019 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Speaks on “Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis”

At the National Press Club, Hope for Missing Journalist Austin Tice (F’02, L’13)

Building Resilience in an “Unprecedented Crisis of Displacement”: From Around the World, Refugee and Migration Judges Come to Georgetown Law

Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal, Counsel in Trump v. Hawaii, Issues Statement after SCOTUS Decision

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