The Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinic trains law students to represent immigrants from around the world fleeing the most serious human rights abuses.
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC), in partnership with Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), has worked with hundreds of immigrants and refugees since its founding in 1984. HIRC combines legal representation of individual applicants for asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief with the development of theories and policy relating to asylum and refugee law. HIRC students take the lead in representing clients from all over the world who are seeking protection from human rights abuses in their country of origin, protection from exile after years of living in the United States, or reunification with their families.
