Miami Law professors aid immigrant youth in Florida Supreme Court case

January 4, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – The Florida Supreme Court ruled that juvenile courts cannot reject the dependency petitions filed on behalf of immigrant children without an evidentiary hearing. Professors Bernard Perlmutter and Rebecca Sharpless wrote amicus briefs in the case, brought by a Guatemalan teenager who had entered the United States without a visa…

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BYU Law project aims to help Utah residents in debt

December 27, 2017

KUER (NPR UTAH) – The group is called LawX, it’s a semester-long project led by Kimball Parker, a practicing lawyer in Salt Lake City.

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Columbia Law students make significant contributions in Alabama death row case

December 27, 2017

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL – The students have been actively working with Professor Bernard Harcourt to prevent the execution of Doyle Lee Hamm.

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Ten Maine Law students provide legal aid to women at Texas immigration detention center

December 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW – Law students from Maine are providing volunteer legal help to immigrant and refugee women held at a federal detention center in Texas.

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Four FSU Law students advocate for state constitutional revision on juvenile justice

December 27, 2017

WFSU (NPR TALLAHASSEE) – A quartet of Tallahassee law students has been advocating two changes to Florida’s Constitution.

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UCLA Law co-releases study on teens’ gender expression

December 27, 2017

KPBS (SAN DIEGO) – Researchers asked teens whether they identified as male or female, and then asked how masculine or feminine they thought their classmates thought of them.

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University of Miami Law’s immigration clinic helps halt deportation of Somali with class-action lawsuit against ICE

December 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – The lawsuit cites inhumane conditions and egregious abuse of 92 Somali men and women during a failed attempt to deport them by plane on December 7, 2017.

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Loyola Law New Orleans clinic helps file amicus brief in support of lawsuit against bus service

December 27, 2017

NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE – The law clinic joined six education and youth advocacy organizations in filing an amicus brief supporting the Orleans Parish School Board’s lawsuit.

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Harvard Law student becomes second Federal Tax Clinic student to argue appeal in federal circuit court

December 27, 2017

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – Amy Feinberg ’18 became the second Federal Tax Clinic student to argue an appeal in a federal circuit court since the Clinic opened.

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University of Virginia Law’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic seeks to help Virginia native tribe preserve historic land

December 27, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – Halima Nguyen is helping the Mattaponi people voice their concerns and preserve their connection to America’s birthplace.

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