Summer I 2025

5414 Immigration Clinic II - CABOT/ALIMOHAMMAD- 14705

Professor(s): Rehan Alimohammad (OTHER FACULTY)
J Anna Cabot (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])

Credits: 4

Course Areas: Practice Skills - Clinics and Externships

Time: CANCELLED Location:

Course Outline: As a student in this clinic, you will participate in the representation of clients with immigration cases. The clinic’s case load includes people seeking asylum and other humanitarian relief from removal, Special Immigrant Juvenile status, and visas for victims of crime and trafficking, in addition to other family-based immigration.

You are your client’s attorney and will be responsible for all aspects of the case—client interviewing and counseling, fact investigation and development, working with expert witnesses, legal research, drafting documents and applications, negotiations, and trial advocacy as necessary. You will work under the supervision of one of the professors.

In addition to the work you do on your client’s case, known as fieldwork, there is a classroom component to the clinic. The clinic will meet once per week for one hour for case rounds. Case rounds are group problem solving sessions where a team presents a problem to the class and the class helps the team to examine the problem, consider their own goals, and brainstorm solutions.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Quota=3

Prerequisites: Yes - Completion of Immigration Clinic I. Good academic standing.

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule:

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: clinic

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

No book required for this course