Elizabeth Keyes

Practitioner in Residence, Immigrant Justice Clinic

Office: Room 446A
 Phone: 202-274-4455
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Elizabeth Keyes is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Immigrant Justice Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a supervising attorney at WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence), where she provided legal services to immigrant survivors of domestic violence; she assisted dozens of immigrant domestic violence survivors with their protection order, divorce, custody and child support cases, as well as working the many immigration remedies available to these clients. Before WEAVE, Liz spent three years as a Skadden fellow and staff attorney at CASA of Maryland, working on the civil and immigration aspects of labor exploitation cases, litigating in state, federal and immigration courts. She focused particularly on trafficked domestic workers, and their exploitation by diplomats. Before law school, she spent several years working on African policy and development issues with Catholic Relief Services, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, throughout Africa. She received her law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a B.A. in African Development Studies from Carleton College.



Areas of Specialization

  • Immigration Law
  • Domestic Violence

Degrees & Universities

  • B.A., Carleton College (magna cum laude)
  • M.P.A., Princeton University
  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude)

  • Selected Publications

    • Elizabeth Keyes, CASA of Maryland and the Battle Regarding Human Trafficking and Domestic Worker Rights, 7 U. Md. L.J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 14 (2008).
    • Elizabeth Keyes & Jean Bruggeman, Meeting the Legal Needs of Human Trafficking Victims: An Introduction to Domestic Violence Attorneys and Advocates (Amanda Kloer, Irena Lieberman and Robin Runge eds., ABA Commission on Domestic Violence 2008).
    • Elizabeth Keyes, Tips for Appealing to the BIA (Andrea Siemens and Irena Lieberman eds., ABA Commission on Immigration 2005).

    • + More Publications...

    • Books

    • Elizabeth Keyes & Naima Main, Naturalization and Criminal Offenses, Detention, & Removal: A Legal Guide for Immigrants & Advocates (Andrea Siemens and Irena Lieberman eds, ABA Commission on Immigration 2004).
    • Elizabeth Keyes & Jason Strain, Accountability in the Aftermath of Rwanda’s Genocide, in Accountability for Atrocities (Jane Stromseth ed., 2003).

  • + Selected Presentations

    • Elizabeth Keyes, Co-Presenter, U Visa Training (U.S. Dept of J., Office of Violence Against Women, D.C., June 30, 2010).
    • Elizabeth Keyes, Presenter, Immigration Remedies for Domestic Violence Survivors, (DC Bar Pro Bono Program Civil Protection Order Trainings, D.C., 2009).