Willamette Law Child and Family Advocacy Clinic students submit report to U.N. Human Rights Council on children’s rights violations in the U.S.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — Early in the morning on Oct. 2, Willamette Law students submitted a 6,500-word report to the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on the United States’ children’s rights violations. The project was an obvious opportunity for the Child and Family Advocacy Clinic, which advances legal protections for children and provides pro bono legal representation to individual…
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WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL — Their project, called the Public Interest Justice Initiative, started with recommendations from the Remington Center at UW Law School. The center found that, of the 128 people whose cases are being looked at, about half are from Milwaukee. Of those, 86 percent are people of color.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LAW SCHOOL — One year after opening its doors to clients, the UW Law School’s VOCA Restraining Order Clinic has helped 62 survivors navigate legal issues in four Wisconsin counties. Under director Ryan Poe-Gavlinski’s supervision, law students help victims of domestic violence, from trial preparation through direct representation in courtroom proceedings. The clinic…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — On Monday, November 18, 2019, the Advanced Sentencing Clinic at Yale Law School hosted a screening of the Frontline documentary “Life on Parole,” which follows the lives of four individuals on parole in Connecticut. The screening was followed by a panel discussion about the state of parole in Connecticut, moderated by Destiny…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD Action) and the City of Newburgh, NY filed a lawsuit on Nov. 26, 2019, in federal court in Manhattan challenging five structural deficiencies in the U.S. Census Bureau’s final operational plans for the 2020 Census. The suit contends that the Census Bureau’s decisions to hire…
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TIMES UNION — Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School, said it’s not common for many people in these camps to gain asylum status or ever see a lawyer or go in front of a judge.
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UCLA LAW — In recent years, UCLA Law launched a First Gen In initiative to promote personal and professional achievement for these students and to build a stronger community through career workshops, networking events and other innovative programs. A group of students simultaneously launched the First Generation Law Students Association to enrich and support each other…
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CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Carmen Huertas-Noble is receiving the cooperative community’s highest honor reserved for outstanding leaders whose contributions to the cooperative movement are genuinely heroic. Known for providing strategic advocacy and legal support to neighborhood institutions, as well as organizing for social and economic justice, Professor Huertas-Noble has advanced the work and causes of…
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CORNELL CHRONICLE — More than four years after surviving an attack by a mob that believed he was gay, a Ghanaian man recently won asylum in the United States with help from partners including Cornell Law School students and faculty. “It’s great news,” said Adam Kassner, J.D. ’16, who worked on the case as part of the…
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DUKE LAW — In recent months Duke Law student volunteers, collaborating with fronteraTech, a legal nonprofit based in Durham, have provided legal orientation and consultations to more than 100 detained asylum seekers at the Alamance County (N.C.) Detention Center and are seeing encouraging results from their work. So far about 75 percent of the detainees advised…
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