Evangeline Abriel joined the Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law in 2003 and directed the program from 2007 until 2014. In addition to teaching LARAW and Advocacy, she directs the Immigration Appellate Practice Clinic and the law school’s summer legal studies program in Sydney, Australia. She speaks and writes regularly on immigration law matters, particularly on immigration relief for refugees and victims of abuse and crime.
Prior to joining the Santa Clara law faculty, Professor Abriel spent a year in Perth, Western Australia, where she taught at Notre Dame University School of Law and served as a consultant to the Murdoch University Law School Clinic in 1999. Upon returning to the United States, she was a senior attorney with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) in San Francisco. Professor Abriel also served as a clinical professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans from 1983 until 1999, where she practiced law with her students in the areas of immigration, juvenile, domestic, and federal civil rights law and directed the Street Law program, the summer legal studies program in Mexico, and the Mobile Immigration Law Clinic.
Professor Abriel is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French.
J.D., Tulane Law School
B.A., Newcomb College of Tulane University
2019 Pro Bono Champion, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Best Writing Professor 2016 and 2007, awarded by the Santa Clara Student Bar Association
Social Justice Recognition Award, 2016 and 2007, Santa Clara Law Center for Social Justice and Public Service
Coordinator, Ninth Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representatives Mentoring Project, 2014 - present
Appellate Lawyer Representative, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2012 – 2015
Certificate of Appreciation, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for contribution to the Court’s Pro Bono Project, March 2009
Included in Best Lawyers in America, under the category of Immigration Law in Louisiana, 1999-2001
International Commission of Jurists, West Australian Branch, East Timor Documentation Project, Training and Evidence-Gathering Subcommittees, September 1999 - July 2000
Gillis Long Public Service Award, 1996, New Orleans, LA
Loyola Law School Clinic Distinguished Service Award, 1993
Access to Justice Committee, Louisiana State Bar, 1995 – 1999
Advisory Committee, Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education, 1996 - 1999
Co-convener, Immigration Law Subcommittee, Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force (May 1991 - August 1992), Los Angeles, CA
Member, Advisory Council, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Washington Regional Office, March 1989-90
Member, Board of Directors, Ecumenical Immigration Services, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1982-1990
Books
T visas: A Critical Immigration Option for Survivors of Human Trafficking. with Co-Authors. 1st ed. Immigration Legal Resource Center (2019 )
Vawa Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants with Sally Kinoshita. 7th edition. Immigration Legal Resource Center (2017)
VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants with Kinoshita. 5th edition. ILRC (2008) | Link to Library Catalog
The VAWA Manual with Kinoshita. 2006 edition. Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2006)
VAWA Manual: Immigration Remedies for Abused Noncitizens with Kinoshita. 2005 edition. Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2005) | Link to Library Catalog
A Guide for Legal Advocates Providing Services to Victims of Human Trafficking with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee Services, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. CLINIC (2004) (Prepared under a generous grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement. Updated 2006)
VAWA Manual: Immigration Remedies for Abused Noncitizens with Kinoshita. Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2002)
Immigration Law and the Impact of Crimes with Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Catholic Charities Hispanic Community Outreach of Des Moines. 2nd edition. Catholic Legal Immigration Network (2002)
Louisiana Street Law Supplement with Housh. Loyola University School of Law (1995)
Chapters
Review of Immigration Decisions Before the Ninth Circuit in Ninth Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representatives Practice Guide. (2017)
Changing the Rules of the Game: Does BIA Precedent Apply Retroactively to Your Client’s Criminal Conviction? with Kara Hartzler and Raha Jorjani in 30th Annual AILA California Chapter CLE Conference Handbook. 37-44 (2017)
The Diversification of Protection Law in the United States in Immigration Law: United States and International Perspectives on Asylum and Refugee Status. Washington College of Law, the American University (1994) (Also published as an article with the same title in Symposium: Immigration Law: United States and International Perspectives on Asylum and Refugee Status, 9 American University Journal of International Law and Policy 1-24 (August 1994) Published as a joint issue with 16 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal) | Link to Digital Commons
Articles
Protecting the Victims: The T Non-Immigrant Visa, 7 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 499-512 (May 1, 2002)
Ending the Welcome: Changes in the United States’ Treatment of Undocumented Aliens (1986 - 1996), 1 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 1-40 (1998) | Link to Digital Commons
The Effect of Criminal Conduct upon Refugee and Asylum Status, 3 Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas 359-372 (1996) | Link to Digital Commons
Rethinking Preemption for Purposes of Aliens and Public Benefits, 42 UCLA Law Review 1597-1630 (1995) | Link to Digital Commons
The Diversification of Protection Law in the United States, (Symposium: Immigration Law: United States and International Perspectives on Asylum and Refugee Status), 9 American University Journal of International Law and Policy 1-24 (August 1994) (Published as a joint issue with 16 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal. Also published as a chapter with the same title in Immigration Law: United States and International Perspectives on Asylum and Refugee Status. Washington College of Law, the American University (1994)) | Link to Digital Commons
Presumed Ineligible: The Effect of Criminal Convictions on Applications for Asylum and Withholding of Deportation Under Section 515 of the Immigration Act of 1990, 6 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 27-86 (1992) | Link to Digital Commons
Other Articles
Hot Topics in Asylum Law, with co-authors, 32 Annual AILA California Chapters Conference Handbook (2019)
The New U Visa Interim Regulations: Part II, 11 Catholic Legal Immigration News ___ (Nov. 2007)
The New U Visa Interim Regulations: Part I, 11 Catholic Legal Immigration News 6-8 (Oct. 2007)
Law and Practice Feature: Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude, 10 Catholic Legal Immigration News 7 (December 2006)
VAWA Then and Now: A Legislative Update on the 2005 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, 11 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 431-435 (May 1, 2006)
Current Issues in Reinstatement of Removal, 9 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 1427-1430 (December 1, 2004)