Academic Programs
Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic
Contact
Sioban Albiol
Clinical Instructor
Sioban Albiol serves as the Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic instructor and coordinator, and as the Legal Resources Project director. Since joining the clinic in 2001, Professor Albiol has overseen the expansion of the Resource Project from seven to 23 partner agencies. She previously served as associate director of the former Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center of Chicago’s Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (now known as the National Immigrant Justice Center, an immigrant legal services agency). Her responsibilities included supervising and training agency attorneys and accredited representatives, supervising a detention project and a naturalization hotline. Professor Albiol has represented low-income immigrants for more than 15 years and has served as managing attorney for one of the largest low-income immigration legal services providers in the Midwest. She has developed and conducted trainings for attorneys, accredited representatives, and other legal service providers in various areas of immigration law. She is a former executive board member of the Chicago chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and also chaired the Immigration and Nationality Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. Professor Albiol teaches the yearlong Asylum Training & Representation module.
Linus Chan
Clinical Instructor
Courses
Legal Clinic Asylum & Immigration
Legal Clinic Advanced Immigrant Detainee
Contact Information
312.362.5707
Fax: 312.362.6915
rchan6@depaul.edu
Office: 1153 OM
Linus Chan joined the clinic in 2008 as an attorney with the Legal Resources Project. Professor Chan is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. He previously served as senior staff attorney of the Detention Project at the National Immigrant Justice Center where he represented immigrants in removal proceedings before the executive office of Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on a number of claims: from cancellation of removal, NACARA, VAWA, citizenship, HRIFA defense, removal defense, adjustment, asylum, and other persecution based forms of relief. Professor Chan also conducted Know Your Rights presentations for immigrant detainees. Prior to specializing in immigration work, Professor Chan worked in private practice and also clerked for the Hon. Pasco M. Bowman II, United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, Kansas City, Missouri. Professor Chan co-teaches the semester-long Immigration Training & Representation module and the Advanced Immigrant Detainee module.
Education
A.B., University of Chicago; J.D. Northwestern University
Sarah J. Diaz
Clinical Instructor
Courses
Legal Clinic Asylum & Immigration
Legal Clinic Advanced Immigrant Detainee
Contact Information
312.362.5881
Fax: 312.362.6915
sdiaz3@depaul.edu
Office: 1152 OM
Sarah Diaz joined the clinic in December 2007 as attorney for the Legal Resources Project. Professor Diaz is a 2005 graduate of DePaul University College of Law. Prior to joining the Clinic Programs, Professor Diaz served as staff attorney for the Children’s Project at the National Immigrant Justice Center, handling a large volume of client cases specifically concerning the legal rights and remedies of unaccompanied minors detained by the Department of Homeland Security and providing legal trainings and technical assistance to pro bono legal service. While at DePaul, Professor Diaz conducted fieldwork and research on sexual exploitation of minors in sex tourism between the U.S. and Costa Rica as the honorary research fellow/project manager for Sex Tourism Opposition & Prevention (STOP). She also served as a researcher with the Chiapas Project, in Chiapas, Mexico. Diaz co-teaches the Immigration Training & Representation module and the Advanced Immigrant Detainee module.
Education
B.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; J.D. DePaul College of Law
Davina Campos
Paralegal
312-362-8283
dcampos@depaul.edu
Lorena Hernandez
Administrative Assistant
312-362-8294
lhernan2@depaul.edu
