A pplying to O ur C linic Post-Graduate Fellowships CALS Fellow Rebecca Story advising Lynn O'Brien, who won asylum for a refugee from Sudan. CALS represents refugees seeking political asylum in the United States because of threatened persecution in their home countries. Students in CALS assume primary responsibility for the representation of these refugees, whose requests for asylum have already been rejected by the U.S. government.
Students work in pairs on at least one major case during the semester.
CALS' professors and fellows help students prepare for their cases through weekly classes, simulation exercises, tutorial meetings, and mock hearings conducted a few days before real hearings are held.