Kate Devlin Joyce
Director of the Externship Program
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
BA, University of Scranton
JD, Boston College Law School
Biography
Kate Devlin Joyce is a clinical instructor and director of the externship programs. She sees externships as a means of integrating doctrinal and experiential teaching. Devlin Joyce focuses her work on developing methods of teaching externship seminars that help students to better understand the connections between their doctrinal courses and their practical legal experiences.
Prior to teaching in externship programs, Devlin Joyce was the director of public interest programs at Boston College Law School where she helped develop many programs including Spring Break in Boston and the Public Interest Designation Program.
Devlin Joyce was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and practiced immigration and asylum law where she represented clients in VAWA, U-, and T-visa, asylum, and family cases. She continues her international involvement as a family support person for family members of hostages through Hostage US. She remains active in the Haiti Plunge, an organization she has been involved with since 1991 when she first visited Desab, Haiti.
- Profile Types
- Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, and Professors & Clinical Instructors
- Areas of Interest
- Accommodations in Externships, Externship Pedagogy, and Paid Externships
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