Temple Law students help change Philadelphia practice of billing parents for incarceration of their children

March 27, 2017

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY – Law students’ investigation of Philadelphia’s policy of billing parents for the cost of incarcerating their children prompted the city to put an end to the practice.

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Harvard Law students support refugees during hearing in front of Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

March 27, 2017

HARVARD CRIMSON – Two students from Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic argued that the United States was no longer a “safe country” for refugees before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

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UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program helps Los Angeles set policy for police body camera footage

March 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW – UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program has joined to help establish LAPD policy for the release of body camera footage taken following officer-involved shootings and other critical incidents.

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WVU Law students help former Army medic win education benefits

March 27, 2017

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY – Student attorneys in the Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic at West Virginia University recently helped a former Army Ranger pursue his dream of becoming a medical doctor.

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Loyola Law Los Angeles Project for the Innocent helps free wrongfully convicted man

March 27, 2017

CBS NEWS – Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent, which fought for Wilson’s release, pointed to numerous due-process violations.

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Illinois Law helps organize pro bono training for local attorneys and students

March 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS – Illinois Law has partnered with local non-profit legal service organization the Immigration Project, to provide a series of four continuing legal education trainings on immigration law.

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Richmond Law students create report on addressing poverty in city as part of new class

March 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND – Students launched into a week-long, intensive study of poverty in the Richmond area over the spring 2017 semester break by getting out of the classroom and into the community.

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Northwestern Law’s director of the Center for Criminal Defense takes on Kenosha, WI murder defendant as client

March 27, 2017

WGTD (KENOSHA) – The woman who allegedly killed her abusive ex-boyfriend on Independence Day of last year now has some high-powered legal help.

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Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic files Supreme Court amicus brief for Federal workplace rights case

March 27, 2017

PENN STATE LAW – The clinic filed its brief on behalf of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association in Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board.

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