The Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Clinic is a two-semester clinical program available to second and third year students. St. John's University is partnering with the Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Project (ITAP) of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese's Catholic Migration Office to give students the opportunity to engage in community organizing and legal representation of tenants affected by substandard housing conditions and related problems in predominantly immigrant populated neighborhoods within Brooklyn and Queens.
Clinic students participate in outreach and intake at community based institutions, follow up on efforts to organize large groups of tenants, lobby meetings, attend press conferences, draft administrative complaints, and prosecute affirmative legal actions to improve housing conditions and combat harassment of low-income tenants. This clinic explores the intersection of "law and organizing" and offers students the chance to both represent clients in court and take part in "community lawyering" through non-litigation activity. Experienced tenants' rights attorneys and community organizers from the Catholic Migration Office supervise the clinic.
Students receive four (4) credits per semester. The two-semester Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Clinic satisfies the Advanced Practice Writing Requirement. If you are interested in applying for a position, e-mail the director, Robert McCreanor, at McCreanor1976@yahoo.com.