DePaul University, College of Law

Founded in 1898, DePaul University was established to fulfill the mission of St. Vincent de Paul in educating the poor and the children of immigrants. The University’s College of Law operates an Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic (the Clinic), which collaborates with community-based organizations to offer legal services to low-income immigrants in the Chicago metropolitan area. With this award, the Clinic expands training and technical assistance provided to its partner organizations as they respond to needs in immigrant communities created by shifts in federal law and policy related to immigration law enforcement. It also supports a translator and interpreter corps of volunteers established with the DePaul University Department of Modern Languages, ensuring that immigrants with low English proficiency have access to high quality translation throughout their immigration proceedings.  

This award to DePaul University expands a partnership between its Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic and 26 community-based organizations in Illinois that offer legal services to lowwincome immigrants. DePaul is adding several organizations to the partnership, specifically targeting underserved geographic areas of Illinois. It is also building a foreign language Volunteer Corps to translate and interpret for immigrants in Illinois with low levels of English language ability. These activities are timed to facilitate the implementation of a new legalization program announced by President Obama in November 2014 that will offer undocumented immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work lawfully.

To support legal analysis and policy research to reduce biological weapons dangers.

To prepare and disseminate a manual for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention at national levels.