Professor Anna BenvenueSanta Clara Law is excited to welcome Professor Anna Benvenue to its faculty as the Director of the Flex J.D. program! 

Professor Benvenue comes to Santa Clara Law with a wealth of knowledge and experience in Civil Procedure and Constitutional Issues in Immigration Law. At , she co-founded the Immigration Law Clinic, which worked to provide part-time students opportunities to learn law whilst representing clients seeking humanitarian relief and asylum. She was the Director of Immigration Legal Services at an East Bay non-profit organization, focusing on providing legal services at no cost to immigrants across California. Professor Benvenue also worked in San Francisco for a leading deportation defense firm, where she represented clients in administrative appeals, deportation hearings, and petitions for review in federal court litigation.