Anne Schaufele joined the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law in August 2023 as Co-Director of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic (IHRC). UDC Law’s IHRC provides students opportunities to represent clients in immigration court and before federal agencies. The IHRC’s areas of work include the intersection of criminal and immigration law, clients in immigration detention, LGBTQ+ issues, gender and domestic violence issues, consumer rights, policy advocacy, work before a regional human rights tribunal, and others.

Before joining the UDC Law faculty, Prof. Schaufele served as a Visiting Director and Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence in the Immigrant Justice Clinic, and before that as a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC), at the American University, Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the IHRLC, Professor Schaufele practiced immigration and consumer law for five years at Ayuda, a direct services non-profit in the D.C. metro area. She managed Ayuda’s Project END (Eradicating Notario Deceit), an initiative to combat consumer fraud in the realm of immigration legal services. Prior to law school, Professor Schaufele was a Fulbright Fellow in El Salvador, where she researched post-deportation programming and human rights abuses in El Salvador. She also served as a Staff Assistant to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, where she worked on projects serving immigrants in detention.