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Bio

Karen Musalo is the Bank of America Foundation Chair in International Law at the 精东影业 of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is the founding director of both the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic and the , which is internationally recognized for its research, legal advocacy, and expert consultation to attorneys worldwide.

Professor Musalo is the lead co-author of听(6th ed.). She has written extensively on refugee law and has shaped the evolving jurisprudence of asylum not only through her scholarship, but also through her litigation. For more than three decades, beginning with establishing , she has played a central role in every major landmark case involving gender-based violence and the right to refugee protection. Professor Musalo has also been influential in developing the legal analysis of , with particular focus on as a basis for protection.

She is widely recognized for her innovative work on refugee representation. She was the first attorney to collaborate with psychologists in advocating for traumatized asylum seekers, and she edited the earliest practitioner鈥檚 handbook on cross-cultural issues and the impact of culture on credibility in the asylum process. A frequent media commentator, she is also the author of numerous opinion pieces.

Professor Musalo has received multiple national awards in recognition of her advocacy on behalf of refugees. These include the 2010听California Lawyer of the Year听Award, the听Daily Journal鈥檚听2009 recognition as one of California鈥檚 鈥淭op 100鈥� lawyers, and the 2015听Federal Bar Association Immigration Section Lawyer of the Year听Award. In 2012, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Lehman College, the same year she received UC Law SF鈥檚 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is a frequent speaker at conferences across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

Education

• Boalt Hall School of Law, 精东影业 of California, Berkeley
  J.D., Law 1981

• Brooklyn College. City 精东影业 of New York
  B.A., Comparative Literature 1973

Accomplishments

• Lawyer of the Year Award
  Awarded by the Immigration Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. 2015

• Chair in International Law
  Conferred by the Bank of America Foundation. 2014

• Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters
  Awarded by Lehman College at the City 精东影业 of New York. 2012

• Rutter Award
  Awarded by for excellence in teaching. 2012

• California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) Award
  Awarded by the monthly legal magazine, California Lawyer. 2010

• Top 100 Attorneys in California Award
  Awarded by Daily Journal. 2009

• Human Rights Award
  Awarded by the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. 2004

• Carol King Award
  Awarded by the National Immigration Project. 2003

• Human Rights Award
  Awarded by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. 2002

• Annual Award
  Awarded by the New York Central American Refugee Center. 1998

• Outstanding Achievement Award
  Awarded by the Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project. 1998

• Eighth Annual Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award
  Awarded by The Immigrant Legal Resource Center. 1997

• Recognition: The American Lawyer
  Conferred in recognition of the publication " The Public Sector: forty-five young lawyers outside the private sector whose vision andcommitment are changing lives." 1997

Selected Scholarship

• 18 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 178 2021

• 48 Sw. U.L. Rev. 531 2019

• 30 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 3 2018

• 5 J. of Migration and Hum. Security (No. I) 137 2017

• Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges 2015

• African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights 2015

• Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre 2014

• Harvard International Review 2014

• Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 2013

• Refugee Survey Quarterly 2010

• Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2010

• Hastings Women's Law Journal 2010

• Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 2008

• Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007

• Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 2007

• Revista de derecho migratorio y extranjer铆a 2005

• DePaul Law Review 2003

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Legal and Protection Policy Research Series 2002

• International Journal of Refugee Law 2001

• The Expedited Removal Study: Evaluation of the General Accounting Offices Second Report on Expedited Removal
  Center for Human Rights and International Justice, UC Law SF College of the Law 2000

• The Expedited Removal Study: Report on the First Three Years of Implementation of Expedited Removal
  Center for Human Rights and International Justice, UC Law SF College of the Law 2000

• Interpreter Releases 1999

• The Expedited Removal Study: Report on the Second Year of Implementation of Expedited Removal
  Center for Human Rights and International Justice, UC Law SF College of the Law 01/1999

• Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies 1998

• The Expedited Removal Study: Report on the First Year of Implementation of Expedited Removal
  International Human Rights and Migration Project, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara 精东影业 1998

• In Re Kasinga: A Big Step Forward for Gender-Based Asylum Claims,
  Interpreter Releases 1996

• Inter Alia, 精东影业 of Durham, England 1996

• Michigan Journal of International Law 1994

• Hastings Women's Law Journal 1994

• Chiapas: The Rebellion of the Excluded
  Ecumenical Program on Central America & the Caribbean 1994

• Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 1993

• San Diego Law Review 1989