Julie M. Kornfeld

Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law


Julie Kornfeld is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. As a staff attorney and former Skadden Fellow at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), she practices international refugee law and U.S. humanitarian immigration law. 

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Julie Kornfeld

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Faculty Assistant


Rosanna Gonsiewski

Education & Curriculum Vitae


J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2016
B.S., Northwestern University, 2011

Courses Taught


  • International Refugee Assistance Project
  • Advanced International Refugee Assistance Project

Julie Kornfeld is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. As a staff attorney and former Skadden Fellow at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), she practices international refugee law and U.S. humanitarian immigration law. Before joining IRAP, Kornfeld was a Program and Refugee Asylum Law Fellow at the Human Rights Watch, an extern at Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Dean's Public Interest Fellow at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Caribbean Protection Unit. Kornfeld has also represented human trafficking survivors through the University of Michigan Human Trafficking Clinic. Prior to her legal career, Kornfeld worked for a development NGO in Uganda, addressing the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in Uganda. Kornfeld is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School.