Niels Frenzen
- Clinical Professor of Law
- Director of Immigration Clinic
- USC Gould School of Law
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Expertise
- United States immigration law
- refugee and asylum law
- forced migration
- extraterritorial border controls
- migration by sea
- maritime migration toward Europe
- Frontex, the European border control agency
- U.S. and European maritime interdiction practices, including push-back and interception at sea
- search and rescue obligations at sea
- deportation for reasons of national security or terrorism
- use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings
- Haitian boat people and refugees, including U.S. interdiction of Haitian boat people on the high seas
- post-Gulf War Iraqi refugees
- transgender asylum seekers
- the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- immigration detention practices
Additional Information
- President, Program for Torture Victims
- Member, National Advisory Committee, Florida Immigrant Advocacy
Center - Member, numerous human rights monitoring missions to Haiti,
El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo - Past president and board member, Coalition for Humane Immigrants’
Rights of Los Angeles - Author of numerous op-ed pieces in Los Angeles Times