UC Berkeley Law Human Rights Center Investigations Lab publishes book on human rights investigation guide
UC BERKELEY LAW — Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability has just been published, and its first print run sold out almost instantly and hit the top spot in Amazon’s criminal evidence category.
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UC BERKELEY LAW — The Oakland City Council voted unanimously this week to adopt a set of privacy principles drafted by three students from the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic.
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THE CRIME REPORT — Bail reform measures adopted in 2017 by the Chief Judge of the Cook County Courts in Chicago led to a “substantial increase” in crimes committed by individuals released pretrial, according to researchers from the University of Utah.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — On March 4, 2020, the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief in support of respondents at the United States Supreme Court in the consolidated cases of Trump v. Mazars USA and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, which the Court will hear on March 31, 2020.
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Less than two weeks after a smartphone app wreaked havoc on the Iowa Democratic caucuses reporting process last month, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with help from BU School of Law’s BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic, released a new paper casting even more doubt on internet-based election technologies.
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CARDOZO LAW — Professor Deborah Pearlstein testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Rules on March 3rd on the responsibility of the legislative branch. The hearing examined the constitutional role of Congress in matters such as national emergencies, foreign policy, and government funding.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Last summer, second-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. The testimonials, along with additional research, formed the backbone of the white…
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DUKE LAW — Duke Law professor Brandon Garrett has been appointed independent monitor for a landmark bail reform settlement in Texas that could become a national model for cash bail reform. Garrett will monitor implementation of bail reform in the nation’s third-largest county in a seven-year project involving research teams at Duke, Texas A&M University, and the University of…
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — The VITA program is funded by a grant from the IRS and helps people who make less than $55,000 per year file their state and federal taxes for free. Every volunteer has to pass a certification exam. Historically, they trained people on the software and gave people a book to study tax…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — A federal judge has appointed University of Houston Law Center Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson to serve as an independent monitor of the landmark Harris County bail settlement that could serve as a national model for cash bail reform.
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