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Sarah Hill

 

Attorney, Legal Education & Asylum Program (LEAP)

SarahHill08Sarah Hill is the Legal Education and Asylum Program Attorney at HRI, providing legal services to asylum-seekers and their families.

Sarah first began working with asylum-seekers at the Immigration Law Clinic at Seton Hall University. She also interned for the International Institute of New Jersey, Inc. and volunteered as an Ambassador for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

While in private practice, Sarah worked as a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, advocating on behalf of low-income housing cooperatives.

Speeches/Publications

  • Speaker, Hitting the Ground Running: Research, Activism and Leadership for a New Era, National Council for Research on Women Conference, New York University, June 6, 2008.
     
  • Panel Facilitator, The United States and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home, Harvard Human Rights Journal Conference, Harvard University, March 8, 2008.
     
  • The "Necessity Defense" and Emerging Arbitral Conflict in its Application to the US-Argentina Bilateral Investment Treaty, 13 Law & Bus. Rev. Am. 547, (2007).
     
  • Recent Circuit Split: Does the Code Apply to Foreign Asset Avoidance Actions?, ABA Bankruptcy Litigation Newsletter, Summer 2007.

 

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Phone: (214) 273-4331
Fax: (214) 855-0793
E-mail: shill@hrionline.org
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Education
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
LL.M., 2007

Seton Hall University School of Law and John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations
J.D./M.A., 2004

Hillsdale College
B.A. 2000

Bar Admissions
New York, 2004
New Jersey, 2004
Texas, 2007

Associations/Affiliations
American Bar Association
International Law Section,

American Immigration Lawyers Association,

Dallas Bar Association Pro Bono Subcommittee

 

 

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