Deborah Eve Anker is an American Professor of Law and Director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, which she co-founded in 1984.[1][2][3] The HIRC is a clinical and academic program that engages students in representation, and teaches institutional context, legal doctrine and theory.[4] She has been a Harvard academic for over 35 years.[5] Anker is the author of the treatise, Law of Asylum in the United States, and she has co-drafted gender asylum guidelines and amicus curiae briefs. Her scholarly work on asylum is widely cited, frequently by international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the United States Supreme Court.[6][7]
Deborah Anker | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University, Northeastern University Law School, Harvard |
| Occupation(s) | Law scholar and Professor |
| Years active | 1975-present |
| Known for | Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program |
| Notable work | Law of Asylum in the United States |
In 2014 the First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Board of Immigration Appeals decision denying asylum to a Guatemalan Mayan Quiche Indian, for which the HIRC wrote a brief.[8] In August of the same year, the Board of Immigration Appeals recognized domestic violence as grounds for seeking asylum in the US, with Anker and the HIRC having written the amicus brief in that decision, in the case of Matter of A-R-C-G-.[9][10][11][12] In June 2015, Anker received the Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association "in recognition of outstanding service in advancing the cause of human rights".[11][13]
She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University, and received a J.D. from the Northeastern University Law School. She also has a Master of Law degree and Master of Arts and Teaching degree from Harvard. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.[14]
Her father, Irving Anker, was a New York City Schools Chancellor during desegregation. Her mother, Sara R. Anker, was a history teacher at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village.[15] Deborah Anker married Alan Nogee and has a son with him, named Philip Anker-Nogee.[16]
Bar admissions
editReferences
edit- ^ "HARVARD PORTRAIT - Deborah Anker". Harvard Magazine. Harvard Magazine. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ DeRosa, Katie (December 2013). "Are Canada's asylum laws worsening the problem?". Times Colonist. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ PRESTON, JULIA (30 August 2014). "In First for Court, Woman Is Ruled Eligible for Asylum in U.S. on Basis of Domestic Abuse". New York Times. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic". Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Harvard. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ "About the Speakers - DEBORAH E ANKER". Bordering on failure: Canada–US border policy and the politics of refugee exclusion - University of Oxford. University of Oxford. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "DEBORAH ANKER - Profile". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ Efrat Arbel; Catherine Dauvergne; Jenni Millbank (16 April 2014). Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre. Routledge. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-1-135-03811-3.
- ^ "Ordonez-Quino v. Holder, No. 13-1215 (1st Cir. 2014)". Justia.com. Justia. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Matter of A-R-C-G- et al., Respondents" (PDF). Justice.gov. U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Matter of A-R-C-G-". Harvard Law Review. 128: 2090. May 10, 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ a b Kowalski, Daniel M. "Harvard Clinical Prof. Deborah Anker Wins Human Rights Award". LexisNexis. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ Minch, Jack (14 October 2014). "Classroom to courtroom". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Anker, Immigration Clinic Win Human Rights Award". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Anker elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "Deborah Anker Is Married". New York Times. 29 May 1989. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ Anker, Deborah E. Law of Asylum in the United States (Thompson West 4th ed. 2011).
- ^ a b c d e "DEBORAH ANKER - Background". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
Selected bibliography
edit- Anker, Deborah E. Law of Asylum in the United States, 2015 Edition (Thompson-Reuters).
- Anker, Deborah; Lawrence, P (October 2014). "Third Generation" Gangs, Warfare in Central America, and Refugee Law's Political Opinion Ground" (PDF). Immigr. Briefings. Briefings 1: 10–14. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- Anker, Deborah E. "2 Legal change from the bottom up." Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre (2014): 46.
- Anker, Deborah E. "Grutter V. Bollinger: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legitimization of the Role of Comparative and International Law in US Jurisprudence." Harvard Law Review 127.1 (2013): 425.
- Anker, Deborah E., 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 E. "Corroboration, Credibility and Nexus in Asylum Law" in AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2012).
- Anker, Deborah E. Law of Asylum in the United States, 7th Edition, Thomson-Reuters (2014).
- Anker, Deborah E. & 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).
- Anker, Deborah E. "Gender-based Particular Social Group Claims: Overview" in AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2011).
- Anker, Deborah E. "Refugee law, gender, and the human rights paradigm."Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 15 (2002): 133.