Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic

Students in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) represent immigrants, low-wage workers, and their organizations in labor, immigration, criminal justice, civil rights, and other matters.  The clinic docket includes cases at all stages of legal proceedings in Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. District Court, the Second Circuit, and before Connecticut state agencies and courts.  Its non-litigation work includes the representation of grassroots organizations, labor unions, and other groups in regulatory and legislative reform efforts, media advocacy, strategic planning, and other matters.  All students handle at least one litigation and one non-litigation matter, and have the opportunity to explore multiple practice areas.  The WIRAC seminar meets weekly and is centered on a practice-oriented examination of advocacy on behalf of workers, immigrants, and social movements, and an extended analysis of community and social justice lawyering.

WIRAC is supported in part by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.

WIRAC members Dana Bolger ’19, Erin Drake ’20,
and Aseem Mehta ’20 in fall 2018.

Faculty

Michael Wishnie
Muneer Ahmad
Marisol Orihuela
Reena Parikh

Justice Catalyst – Robert M. Cover Fellowship in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic