Institute of International Studies; UC Berkeley
Carolyn Patty Blum is Professor of Law at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches such subjects as Immigration Law, Refugee Law, Asylum Appeals Clinic, Immigration and Asylum Law Clinic, Humanizing the Law: Lawyers and Clients in Twentieth-Century Cinema, and a Human Rights Writing Seminar. Since 1993 she has served as the director of the Practitioner-Supervised and Judicial Externship Field Placement Program at Boalt Hall. She serves concurrently as Professor of Law at the University of Oxford/George Washington University Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law.
Professor Blum worked with the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition, Justice/Civil Rights Cluster, Immigration Team Member, in Washington DC in December of 1992. She has been awarded the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Litigation in the Field of Immigration Law (American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1991) and the Carol King Memorial Award, National Immigration Project (National Lawyers Guild, 1991). She received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
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