Deborah Anker

Clinical Professor of Law

Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Gender Asylum
• Immigration
• Refugee Law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Immigration
• Refugee Asylum
• Women's Human Rights

Education

• Brandeis University B.A. 1969, History
• Harvard University Graduate School of Education M.A.T. 1970
• Northeastern University School of Law J.D. 1975
• Harvard Law School L.L.M. 1984

Appointments

• Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, 1984
• Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law, 2005
• Clinical Professor of Law, 2005

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Anker, Deborah, Nancy Kelly, John Willshire Carrera & Sabrineh Ardalan. "Mejilla-Romero: A New Era For Child Asylum," 12-09 Immigration Briefings, Thompson-Reuters 1 (2012).
  
• Anker, Deborah. "Corroboration, Credibility and Nexus in Asylum Law" in AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2012).
  
• Anker, Deborah. Law of Asylum in the United States (Thompson West 5th ed. 2012).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Anker, Deborah & Sabrineh Ardalan. "Escalating Persecution of Gays and Refugee Protection: Comment on Queer Cases Make Bad Law," 44 N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics 529 (2012).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Anker, Deborah. "Gender-based Particular Social Group Claims: Overview" in AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2011).
  
• Anker, Deborah. Law of Asylum in the United States (Thompson West 4th ed. 2011).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Marouf, Fatma E. & Deborah Anker. "Socioeconomic Rights and Refugee Status: Deepening the Dialogue Between Human Rights and Refugee Law," 103 American Journal of International Law 784 (2009).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Anker, Deborah, Matthew Muller, Emily Gumper & Jean C. Han. "Any Real Change: Credibility and Corroboration After the REAL ID Act" in Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook 357 (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2008).
  

Bibliography

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