Miami Law professors aid immigrant youth in Florida Supreme Court case
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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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 SCHOOL – The students have been actively working with Professor Bernard Harcourt to prevent the execution of Doyle Lee Hamm.
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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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WFSU (NPR TALLAHASSEE) – A quartet of Tallahassee law students has been advocating two changes to Florida’s Constitution.
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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.
Read More about UCLA Law co-releases study on teens’ gender expressionUniversity of Miami Law’s immigration clinic helps halt deportation of Somali with class-action lawsuit against ICE
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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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 SCHOOL – Amy Feinberg ’18 became the second Federal Tax Clinic student to argue an appeal in a federal circuit court since the Clinic opened.
Read More about Harvard Law student becomes second Federal Tax Clinic student to argue appeal in federal circuit courtUniversity of Virginia Law’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic seeks to help Virginia native tribe preserve historic land
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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