Lauren Hughes

Lauren Hughes joined W&L Law in 2025 as the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic. Previously, she was a clinical teaching fellow at the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Hughes researches in the areas of immigration law, asylum and refugee law, and international human rights law.

Professor Hughes previously served as Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at the community-based non-profit Building One Community in Stamford, Connecticut, representing clients from a range of countries on their removal cases, asylum applications, and other humanitarian claims. Professor Hughes began her legal career as a Law Clerk to Judge Gary S. Katzmann at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, NY, including sittings by designation with the First, Second, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.