Eleanor Acer
Eleanor Acer (J.D., Fordham) has been the director of the Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First for over ten years. As the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection Program,
Eleanor Acer supervises Human Rights First's pro bono representation
program and works with our Washington staff on matters related to
domestic refugee policy. Under Eleanor's leadership, Human Rights First
has obtained asylum for more than 90% of our refugee clients in the New
York and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. Eleanor oversees our
1,000-member volunteer lawyer network, maintains the quality of our
legal service provision to asylum seekers from 88 countries, directs
the program's training component, and guides Human Rights First's staff
attorneys. Eleanor speaks and writes regularly on issues relating to
U.S. asylum law and policy. Before coming to
Human Rights First, Eleanor was an associate handling federal
litigation at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP and before that at Lord
Day & Lord, Barrett Smith. She has coordinated mentoring programs
and has served on the International Human Rights Committee and
Immigration Committee of the Association of the Bar of New York.
Her area of interest is promoting fair asylum laws
and procedures consistent with international human rights standards.
currently teachingin Spring 2009 will be teaching
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