Interested in a career in public interest law? Want to hear more about current issues in immigration law from someone with extensive experience in the field?


DMPLA will be hosting our termly keynote featuring Vermont Law School Professor Erin Jacobsen. Join us for a conversation with Professor Jacobsen as she discusses her path to law school and to a career in immigration law as well as the ways the current state of immigration law affects her work. There will also be time for Q&As.


Thursday, November 8

5 - 6:30pm

Haldeman 41




For more information on the speaker, please see the bio below or click here. https://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/career-profiles/out-of-the-shadows

Out of the Shadows | Vermont Law School<https://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/career-profiles/out-of-the-shadows>
www.vermontlaw.edu
Under the mentorship of supervising attorney Art Edersheim, Erin Jacobsen assisted in cases with Burlington-based Vermont Immigration and Asylum Advocates.



Professor Jacobsen is Assistant Professor and Supervising Attorney at Vermont Law School’s South Royalton Legal Clinic (SRLC), where she is the lead project attorney and project coordinator of SRLC's Vermont Immigrant Assistance (VIA) Project. Prior to that, she was the Lead Staff Attorney at Vermont Immigration and Asylum Advocates in Burlington, Vermont.  Through VIA, Erin and her students provide free legal representation to indigent immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Erin also practices juvenile and family law, and staffs the Clinic’s Prison Project, in which she consults with incarcerated women about legal issues regarding their children. Erin is committed to public interest law and to doing work that promotes human dignity and human rights. She is licensed to practice law in the State of Vermont and in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.


Co-sponsored by CoFIRED

Open to all of campus!


We hope to see you there!

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