LAW 942 - U.S. Asylum Law Seminar

Unit(s): 2

An in depth study of the laws, regulations, and cases that govern eligibility for asylum in the United States. Topics include statutory eligibility, defining persecution, bars to asylum, political opinion, membership in particular social groups, religious claims, race and nationality claims, defining well-founded fear, humanitarian asylum, the treatment of unaccompanied minors, special immigrant juvenile status, the nexus requirement, the effects of PTSD on applicants, compiling country conditions evidence, the use of experts, internal relocation issues, and persecution by nongovernmental entities. Contrasts will be drawn with protections that are related to asylum such as withholding of removal and the Convention Against Torture.

Restriction: College restricted to School of Law
School of Law