Sarah Diaz
Director, Immigration and Human Rights Clinic
Co-Director, Holistic Immigration Hub
Associate Director, Center for the Human Rights of Children
School of Law
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sdiaz10@luc.edu
Expertise In
- Immigration Law
Sarah J. Diaz. J.D., LL.M is the director of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, co-director of Loyola’s Holistic Immigration Hub, and Associate Director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Diaz teaches and practices in the areas of immigration, refugee law, and international human rights law. She has worked at the intersection of child migration and human rights for twenty years.
Throughout her career, Diaz has participated in several initiatives designed to create access to justice for migrants on a local, state, and international level including authoring the Illinois Voices Act, serving on the Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force, developing and co-leading a DACA legal services collaborative that directed policy feedback for the Obama Administration, and providing expert opinions to the UN Working Group on the Use of Private Security Companies in the context of migrant detention.
Focus Areas:
- Immigration law
- International human rights
- Refugee law (asylum)
- Intersection of child migration and international human rights
