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Diana R. Blank is a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and holds the William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellowship. She co-teaches the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, where UConn Law students represent migrants seeking refuge from persecution. Prior to joining UConn, she served as a staff attorney at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association and a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School.
- JD, Yale Law School
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- BA, Stanford University
Her research focuses on immigration law, anthropology of law, human rights, and discourses on national/local belonging in Ukraine and France. She has extensive experience supervising law students in immigration advocacy across multiple legal fora, including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and federal appellate courts.
- Stephen J. Massey Prize (clinical work at Yale Law School)
- Raphael Lemkin Prize (human rights writing)
Professor Blank has taught English in refugee resettlement programs in New York City and served as a Fulbright fellow in France. She has also taught graduate-level anthropology and interdisciplinary courses at UC Berkeley and Columbia University.
