Judy London has been practicing immigration law for over 30 years. She has dedicated her career to expanding access to counsel for immigrants facing removal and to training the next generation of immigration advocates. She began her career at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Los Angeles, California, where she served as Legal Director from 1996 to 2000. From 2002 to 2022, Judy served as the Directing Attorney of Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project in Los Angeles, where she expanded the agency’s impact litigation and detention work, and launched the agency’s children’s program which provides zealous representation to unaccompanied children in removal proceedings. For 10 years, Judy co-taught the Asylum Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where she mentored countless law students and insured zealous advocacy for asylum seekers. Judy continues to consult on complex immigration matters and mentors advocates at the Immigration Center for Women and Children in Los Angeles, where she supervises a collaborative team providing legal representation to unaccompanied children. In 2015, Judy was recognized with the Robert W. Kenny Award by the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild. Judy is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

Publications:

Rojas Flores, L., Clements, M.L. , Hwant Koo, J., & London, J. (2017). Trauma and psychological distress in Latino citizen children following parental detention and deportation. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 9(3), 352-361.