Jocelyn Dyer joined the Columbus School of Law in 2022 as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor with the Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Clinic. She comes to the Law School with nearly two decades of practice experience in immigration and specializes in asylum law.

Before joining Catholic Law, Professor Dyer led the Immigration Justice Campaign’s legal support program, providing mentorship and training to a network of thousands of volunteer attorneys, interpreters, and law students assisting noncitizens in remote detention centers around the country. As Managing Attorney for the Campaign, Professor Dyer designed innovative models for group mentorship and pro bono representation. Professor Dyer created numerous practice advisories, template filings, and other resources for pro bono attorneys and members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association handling detained asylum cases.

Professor Dyer joined the Campaign from Human Rights First, where she mentored and trained pro bono attorneys representing asylum seekers. She started her legal career practicing corporate litigation at the international law firm, Foley Hoag, while maintaining a robust pro bono practice working with domestic violence survivors and immigration clients. Professor Dyer also served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Massachusetts School of Law, where she taught Legal Skills, a mandatory first-year course focused on legal analysis, research, writing, and advocacy.

Professor Dyer is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she graduated cum laude and served as a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Through a competitive writing process, she was selected as a Littleton Legal Fellow and taught first-year law students legal writing. Professor Dyer clerked for the Honorable Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV of the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Professor Dyer is a frequent speaker on panels related to asylum and immigration detention at American Immigration Lawyers Association national and chapter conferences. She has also presented on the power of medical-legal partnerships at the North American Refugee Health Conference and navigating immigration crises at the Equal Justice Conference. She has been quoted in the Washington Post and has appeared in interviews with Voice of America and eNews Channel Africa on asylum law-related matters. "