Deborah Anker

Title

 Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

Email

 danker@law.harvard.edu

Telephone

 617-495-5912

Fax

 617-495-9393

Department

 Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

School

 Harvard Law School

Regions of Interest

  Latin American Region-wide or Comparative Work

Countries of Interest

  Haiti

Areas of Expertise

  Immigration and Latino Studies, Human Rights, Law / Legal Studies

Mailing Address

 Harvard Law School Pound Hall 408 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Location

 Pound Hall 408

Research Interest

 Refugee women; human rights; immigration law

Web Page

 http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=539

Courses

 

Publications

 

Books

Anker, Deborah. Law of Asylum in the United States : Supplement (Refugee Law Center, Inc. 2002). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Anker, Deborah. Law of Asylum in the United States (Refugee Law Center, Inc. 3rd ed. 1999). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Shorter Works in Collection

Anker, Deborah, Lena Ayoub, H. Glenn Fogle Jr. & Matthew Muller. "Stepping Up to the Bar: Exclusions from Asylum and Withholding of Removal Protection" in Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook 348 (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2007). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Anker, Deborah. "Refugee Law, Gender and the Human Rights Paradigm" in Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration (Brad Epps ed., Harvard University Press, 2005).

Anker, Deborah. "Membership in a Particular Social Group: Recent Developments in U.S. Law" in Proceedings of 2005 Annual Immigration Law Conference (Austin Fragomen ed., Practicing Law Institute, 2005).

Anker, Deborah. "Women Refugees, Forgotten No Longer?" in Europe and Refugees: A Challenge? (J.Y. Carlier & D. Vanheule eds., Kluwer Law International, 1997).

Articles in a Periodical

Anker, Deborah, James Cavallaro & S. Shastri. "Towards the Lowest Common Denominator: Canada Guts Post-9/11 Refugee Protection," 9 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 1028 (2004).

Anker, Deborah. "Refugee Law, Gender and Human Rights Paradigm," 15 Harvard Human Rights Journal 133 (2002).

Anker, Deborah. "Refugee Status and Violence Against Women in the 'Domestic Sphere'," 15 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 391 (2001).

Anker, Deborah, Joan Fitzpatrick & Andrew Shaknove. "Crisis and Cure: A Reply to Hathaway, Neve and Schuck," 11 Harvard Human Rights Journal 295 (1998).

Anker, Deborah, Lauren Gilbert & Nancy Kelly. "Women Whose Home Governments Are Unwilling To Provide Protection May Qualify As Refugees Under United States Asylum Law," 11 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 709 (1997).

Anker, Deborah. "Rape in the Community as a Basis for Asylum; The Treatment of Women Refugees: Claims to Protection in Canada and the United States , Part I & II; Mental Harm and Suffering as Persecution," . Bender's Immigration Law Bulletin . (1997). (Bi-weekly column from 1997-1998)

Anker, Deborah. "The Mischaracterized Asylum Crisis: Realities Behind Proposed Reforms," 9 American University Journal of International Law and Policy 29 (1994).

Anker, Deborah. "Determining Asylum Claims in the United States : A Case Study on the Implementation of Legal Norms in an Unstructured Adjudicatory Environment," 19 New York University School of Law Journal of Law and Social Change 433 (1992).

Anker, Deborah. "The Legal Position of Foreigners in the United States of America ," 11 Comparative Law Yearbook 129 (1992).

Anker, Deborah. "First Asylum Issues under United States Law," . Asylum Law and Practice in Europe and North America : A Comparative Analysis by Leading Experts 125 (1992).

Anker, Deborah & Carolyn P. Blum. "The Supreme Court's Decision in INS v. Elias-Zacarias: Is There Any 'There' There?" 69 Interpreter Releases 285 (1992).

Anker, Deborah. " U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy: A Brief Historical Perspective," 13 Defense of the Alien 74 (1991).

Anker, Deborah. "Determining Asylum Claims in the United States : An Empirical Case Study," 2 International Journal of Refugee Law 252 (1990).

Anker, Deborah. "Discretionary Asylum: A Protection Remedy for Refugees Under the Refugee Act of 1980," 28 Virginia Journal of International Law (1988).

Anker, Deborah. "Neutral Principles Without The Constitution: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Decision in Jean v. Nelson," VIII Immigration Journal 1 (1985).

Anker, Deborah. "The Refugee Act of 1980: An Historical Perspective," 5 Defense of the Alien 159 (1984).

Anker, Deborah & Michael Posner. "The Forty Year Crisis: A Legislative History of The Refugee Act of 1980," 19 San Diego Law Review 9 (1981).

Presentations

Anker, Deborah. Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, & Justice: Symposium on Gender Migration (2007).

Miscellaneous Publications

Anker, Deborah. Haitian Political Asylum: A Manual For Pro Bono Representation of Guantanamo Haitians (1992). ((October 1992) (co-author))

Review: World Refugee Survey ( U.S. Committee for Refugees) (1988).

Immigration Journal (American Immigration Lawyers Association, regular column 1982-1987)