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Kristen Jackson
Lecturer in Law
B.A. Brown University, 1994
J.D. Yale, 2002
UCLA Law faculty since 2008
kjackson@publiccounsel.org
Kristen Jackson co-teaches the Immigration Clinic. She is a Staff Attorney in the Immigrants’ Rights Project of Los Angeles-based Public Counsel where she represents abused, abandoned or neglected children eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”) in the delinquency, dependency, and probate systems – both before the immigration service and in immigration court. She also provides SIJS trainings and SIJS technical assistance across the country. During her first year at Public Counsel, she held an Arthur L. Liman Public Interest Fellowship. Before joining Public Counsel, Kristen clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a student director of the Advocacy for Parents and Children Clinic and was the Notes Editor for The Yale Law Journal. She graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude.
