Engaged Curriculum Grants
Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic
Three new Cornell Law School courses where students engage directly with local farmworkers and the farmworker advocacy community.
Employment on a farm is one of the world’s most difficult and dangerous occupations. Farmworkers experience geographic, linguistic and cultural isolation; immigration insecurity; and exclusion from protective employment laws. Through the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, Cornell law students handle immigration and employment matters on behalf of area farmworkers — representing individual clients, offering brief advice and referral services, and providing research support for farmworker rights organizations. Students work with clients on a myriad of issues, from securing permanent residence and deportation relief for teens to conducting brief advice and referral outreach trips to addressing worker-protection violations.
Grant type: Development
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Food and Agriculture; Law, Government and Policy
The Team
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John Blume
Cornell Law School
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Beth Lyon
Cornell Law School
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Gerald Torres
Cornell Law School
- Community partner: Cornell Farmworker Program
- Community partner: Legal Aid Society of Rochester Immigration Program
- Community partner: Worker Justice Law Center of New York
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.