In the tradition of its clinics on criminal law and civil rights, the University of Connecticut School of Law is offering students hands-on courses to aid current and would-be citizens whom the law has largely overlooked.
Foreigners facing threats of torture or other severe punishment, seeking asylum, will be the clients served by a new Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, providing representation in immigration and naturalization hearings, and in Immigration Court. Surprisingly, most aliens seeking asylum not represented by counsel. Those who are have lawyers are 17 times more likely to gain asylum, according to a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times.
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