Julie Dahlstrom

Julie Dahlstrom is Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Education and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Boston University’s School of Law. Dahlstrom directs BU Law’s Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking (IRHT) Program, which offers law students the unique opportunity to represent noncitizen and survivor clients while developing important lawyering skills. Dahlstrom founded and directed the Human Trafficking Clinic since it opened in 2012. In 2014, the Human Trafficking Clinic was recognized by preLaw magazine as one of the top 25 most innovative clinical programs nationally.

As Associate Dean of Experiential Education, Dahlstrom’s primary priorities are to ensure that law students have the training to confront bias, racism, and oppression within the legal system and legal profession. She is committed to strengthening intersectional and interdisciplinary responses to systemic bias by encouraging partnerships among experiential programs and the broader University. She served previously as a senior staff attorney at Casa Myrna Vazquez, where she represented survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, and as managing attorney of the Immigration Legal Assistance Program at Ascentria Care Alliance. Dahlstrom founded and chairs the U and T Visa Working Group of the Immigration Coalition and is a member of the Human Trafficking Subcommittee of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee. Earlier, she served as the co-chair of the Public Service Subcommittee of the Immigration Committee of the Boston Bar Association.

A leader on issues of victims’ rights nationally and locally, Dahlstrom writes and speaks as an expert on issues related to gender-based violence, human trafficking, public interest law, and immigrants’ rights.   In 2012, she was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force, chaired by the Attorney General, and she has served as the co-chair of the Victim Services Subcommittee and a member of the Labor Trafficking Subcommittee. In 2016, she received the Top Women of the Law Award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Dahlstrom received a JD from Boston College Law School and a BA from Boston College.

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