Evangeline Abriel joined Santa Clara University School of Law as a LARAW instructor in the Fall of 2003. Prior to coming to Santa Clara, she was 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, directed the Street Law Program, and directed the Mobile Immigration Clinic. She continues to co-direct Loyola's summer legal studies program in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she teaches Immigration Law and supervises the judicial internship. In 1999, Prof. Abriel moved with her family to 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. Upon returning to the United States in 2000, Prof. Abriel worked as a senior attorney with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), in San Francisco. She continues to work with CLINIC on a consulting basis. Prof. Abriel has taught legal writing at Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, the University of California at Davis School of Law, and Golden Gate University School of Law.

Fluent in Spanish; proficient in French

Significant cases:
In re Adoption of B.G.S., 556 So.2d 545 (La. 1990) (declaring unconstitutional certain parts of the Louisiana adoption statute);
Matter of Acosta, 19 I & N Dec. 211 (BIA 1985) (seminal Board of Immigration Appeals case defining "particular social group" for purposes of U.S. asylum law).

• Freedom Network (USA) to Empower Trafficked and Enslaved Persons, 2003-present
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• Bay Area VAWA Task Force, San Francisco, California, 2002 – present
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• International Commission of Jurists, West Australian Branch, East Timor Documentation Project, Training and Evidence-Gathering Subcommittees, September 1999 - July 2000
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• Included in publication "Best Lawyers in America," under the category of Immigration Law, 1997 – 2000
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• Gillis Long Public Service Award, 1996, New Orleans, LA
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• Loyola Law School Clinic Distinguished Service Award, 1993
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• Access to Justice Committee, Louisiana State Bar, 1995 - 1999
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• Advisory Committee, Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education, 1996 - 1999
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• Co-convenor, Immigration Law Subcommittee, Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force (May 1991 - August 1992), Los Angeles, CA
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• Member, Advisory Council, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
• Washington Regional Office, March 1989-90
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• Legal Services Committee, Unity for the Homeless, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1993-1994
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• Member, Board of Directors, Ecumenical Immigration Services, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1982-1990

Publications and Writings:

"VAWA Then and Now: a Legislative Update on the 2005 Reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act" 11 Bender's Immigration Law Bulletin 431 (May 1, 2006).

The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants (co-author), Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2005).

“Current Issues in Reinstatement of Removal,” 9 Bender’s Immigration Law Bulletin 1427 ( Dec. 1, 2004 ).

A Guide for Legal Advocates Providing Services to Victims of Human Trafficking (co-author and editor) (2004).

“Protecting the Victims: the T Nonimmigrant Visa,” Bender’s Immigration Law Bulletin 499-512 ( May 1, 2002 ).

“Ending the Welcome: Changes in the United States ’ Treatment of Undocumented Aliens (1986 - 1996),” 1 Rutgers Race and the Law Rev. 1 (1998).

“The Effect of Criminal Conduct upon Refugee and Asylum Status,” 2 Southwestern J. of L. & Trade in the Americas 359 (1996).

“Rethinking Preemption for Purposes of Aliens and Public Benefits,” 42 UCLA L. Rev. 1597 (1995).

“The Diversification of Protection Law in the United States,” in Immigration Law: United States and International Perspectives on Asylum and Refugee Status 1 (Am. U. Int’l L & Pol’y & Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L.J. eds. 1994)

“Presumed Ineligible: the Effect of Criminal Convictions on Applications for Asylum and Withholding of Deportation under Section 515 of the Immigration Act of 1990,” 7 Georgetown Imm. L. J . 27 (March 1992).

Immigration Law and the Impact of Crimes (co-author) (2001 and 2004).

“Evidentiary Considerations for Persons Taking Statements from East Timorese in Western Australia ,” in training materials for East Timor Documentation Project, International Commission of Jurists, Western Australia branch (2000).

“An Analysis of Current U.S. Law and Practice Concerning the Detention of Refugees” (report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington Regional Office) (1999).

Recent presentations:

May 2006               
Panelist, U and T visas; Relief from Removal, Catholic Legal Immigration Network's annual Convening, Miami, Florida

May 2006               
Presentations to attorneys, government employees, police, social workers, and domestic violence counselors, on the subject of human trafficking, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

May 2006               
Presenter, training on immigration relief for victims of abuse and crime, San Francisco, presented by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC).

April 2006              
Presenter, training on Immigration Remedies for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Abuse and Other Crimes, presented by ILRC, Los Angeles, California

November 2005      
Presenter, motions to reopen removal proceedings and inadmissibility grounds and waivers, annual conference of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women Conference, Irvine, California.

October 2005   
Presenter on inadmissibility grounds and waivers, ILRC training on family-based immigration law, San Francisco.

September 2005    
Presenter, Catholic Legal Immigration Network training on immigration relief for victims of abuse and crime, Portland, Oregon.