Bridgette Carr

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Office: 725 Howard Street
South Bend, IN 46617
Telephone: 574.631.7795
Fax: 574.631.6725
Email: Bridgette.A.Carr.55@nd.edu

Professor Carr joins the faculty as an associate clinical professor of law. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1998 with a B.A., cum laude, and earned her J.D., cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002. During law school she was a Michigan Refugee and Asylum Law Fellow with Amnesty International. She comes to us from the faculty of Ave Maria School of Law, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Asylum and Immigrant Rights Law Clinic. Before joining the faculty at Ave Maria, she was an associate at Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone.

Professor Carr’s research and teaching interests focus on human rights, immigration, and international refugee law. Her previous scholarship and clinical work has centered on the plight of asylum seekers, battered immigrants, and victims of human trafficking. She is on the Board of Directors of Freedom House (Michigan) and a member of the Human Trafficking Taskforce (Michigan).

LAW70301, Immigration Law

LAW75721, Legal Aid & Ethics I

LAW75723, Legal Aid II

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Human Trafficking
• Immigration Law
• International Refugee Law

Articles

We Don’t Need to See Them Cry: Eliminating the Subjective Apprehension Element of the Well-Founded Fear Analysis for Child Refugee Applicants, 33 PEPP. L. REV. 535 (2006).