Linda Tam

Linda Tam joined the faculty of the First Year Skills program in 2021. Tam has spent the majority of her career in the fields of immigrant rights and clinical teaching.

In 2003, she joined the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)—the largest clinical program at Berkeley Law—to start a project providing free immigration services to low-income immigrants living with HIV/AIDS. Tam went on to found and direct EBCLC’s Immigration Clinic. Tam spent the 2018-2019 academic year visiting UC Irvine School of Law as Co-Director of its Immigrant Rights Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law, where she focused on detention cases and criminal post-conviction relief.

Tam has a deep interest in developing experiential education programs, mentoring the next generation of social justice lawyers, and strengthening legal institutions worldwide. In 2015, Tam spent a month in Myanmar, leading workshops on developing experiential education curricula for local law teachers. In 2023, she visited the University of Professional Studies, Accra in Ghana, and the University of Prishtina in Kosovo to support local law faculty in developing their clinical legal education programs.

Tam earned her J.D. at Berkeley Law in 2000 where she served as Senior Notes & Comments Editor of the Asian Law Journal. After graduation, Tam served as a judicial law clerk with the Attorney General’s Honors Program in the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

Education

J.D., UC Berkeley (2000)
B.A. Yale University (1996)

Linda M Tam is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2025.

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