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Asylum for Victims of Persecution By Private Actors

Asylum for Victims of Persecution by Private Actors After Matter of A-B-
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Program Fee: Free for Members | $25 for Non-Members

NY CLE Credit: 2.0 Professional Practice

Description: 
This program will cover Attorney General Sessions’s June 11, 2018, opinion in Matter of A-B-, an asylum case involving a woman who had been the victim of horrific domestic violence in El Salvador. Sessions’s opinion overturned Matter of A-R-C-G-¸ a 2014 decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals which held that victims of domestic violence who are unable to leave their relationships may qualify for asylum under U.S. immigration law. Our panelists will discuss this new decision and what it means for future asylum applicants who are applying for relief based on persecution they experienced at the hands of private actors, rather than the government. They will also discuss amicus briefs that each of them participated in that were filed in Matter of A-B-.
 
Speakers:
Anjum Gupta, Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, Rutgers Law School 
Victoria Neilson, Senior Attorney, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Emma Roth, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Women’s Rights Project, ACLU
Hon. Paul Wickham Schmidt, Former Immigration Judge
 
Moderator:
Laura Berger, Immigration Attorney, Brooklyn Defender Services

Sponsoring Association Committee: 
Sex & Law Committee Mirah E. Curzer and Melissa S. Lee, Co-Chairs

Co-Sponsoring Association Committees:
Children & the Law Committee, Sara L. Hiltzik, Chair
Immigration & Nationality Committee, Victoria F. Neilson, Chair
International Human Rights Committee, Lauren Melkus, Chair
LGBT Rights Committee, Noah E. Lewis, Chair


Where
42 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036

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