Vanderbilt Law hosts Public Interest Boot Camp

December 10, 2024

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — The Public Interest Office recently held Vanderbilt Law’s inaugural 2024 Public Interest Boot Camp, a day-long program designed to provide students with the building blocks necessary to create strong public interest careers.

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Notre Dame Law hosts Public Interest Banquet

November 19, 2024

UNIVERSTY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School hosted the third Rev. David T. Link Public Interest Banquet. The annual banquet is organized by the Law School’s Public Interest Leadership Council (PILC), a student group composed of the leaders of our public interest student organizations, to honor Rev. David T. Link

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A profile on Harvard Law student Lindsay Gabow

November 13, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Lindsay Gabow ’27 is considering a public service legal career with a focus on protecting free speech.

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University of Miami Law Center for Ethics and Public Service advocates for fair housing

November 12, 2024

U MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Working under public policy attorney and Fredman Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence Alexander Rundlet, law students at the Center for Ethics and Public Service facilitated the opening of a systemic housing discrimination investigation under the federal Fair Housing Act, a by the Region IV Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Housing

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Rutgers Law honors attorney Irv Ackelsberg for public interest advocacy work

November 12, 2024

RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — “Predatory lending” has become a well-known term thanks in part to this year’s Mary Philbrook honoree. Irv Ackelsberg’s early work to identify the issue, bring it to public attention, and get courts and policymakers to address it, came out of decades of ground-level client contact in North Philadelphia.

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Penn Carey Law students awarded public interest fellowships

November 6, 2024

PENN CAREY LAW — For the Class of 2024, 25 JDs and 3 LLMs secured fellowships to pursue essential public interest work. Building on Penn Carey Law’s unwavering commitment to public service, the Fellows will advocate for underserved clients and communities across the country providing critical legal services and addressing social inequities and systemic harms.

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UC Berkeley Law students receive funding to pursue public service opportunities

October 31, 2024

BERKELEY LAW — Thanks to the generous support of alumni donors, three Berkeley Law students in the Class of 2025 received supplemental summer public interest/public service (PIPS) funding from CLEE this past summer.

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Northwestern Law hosts Day of Service to provide aid to the community

October 29, 2024

NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — On August 24, 2024, more than 200 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law students stepped out of the classroom and gathered at Chicago-area nonprofits, parks, schools, and beaches.

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University of Maryland Law professor Kathleen Hoke named Public Servant of the Year

October 23, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FRANCIS KING CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Kathleen Hoke has been named University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Public Servant of the Year. She will be honored at a ceremony on October 17 during UMB Founders Week.

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University of Michigan Law announces government service fellowship recipients

October 22, 2024

MICHIGAN LAW — Michigan Law is proud to recognize the 2024 recipients of the Fiske Fellowship: Kacyn Fujii, ’22, Alexander Nye, ’24, and Deborah Won, ’21. 

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