Elon University School of Law, Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic

Elon University School of Law provides students with an array of experiential learning opportunities, including full-time residencies in the practice of law, professional mentoring and nationally recognized leadership training that prepares students for success at all levels of law and society. The school’s rigorous curriculum, taught by a highly accomplished faculty, prepares excellent and ethical lawyers who have the knowledge, skills and judgment to make significant contributions in service to clients, the profession and society.

The law school's clinical education programs allow students under the supervision of law faculty to provide free legal services to low-income refugees and asylum seekers in North Carolina. The Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic (HILC) was established in December 2010. HILC serves the dual purpose of ensuring access to valuable legal serves by a vulnerable population, as well as providing practical skills training to law students. Among the benefits processes that the clinic represents clients with are applications for affirmative asylum, permanent residence, naturalization, humanitarian parole, and refugee/asylee family reunification. Under the supervision of law faculty, Elon Law students manage all aspects of refugee and asylee cases, meeting with clients, performing intake interviews, analyzing cases for legal remedy, gathering evidence, drafting and filing applications and briefs, and maintaining client correspondence. Students also observe and participate in hearings before federal administrative agencies and courts. HILC serves approximately 500 individuals from more than 40 countries annually.