UCLA Law study finds a disproportionate number of LGBT youth in detention centers

April 17, 2017

KVOA (NBC TUCSON) – A disproportionate number of sexual minority youth in the U.S. are criminalized and subjected to abusive treatment in correctional facilities, a new study focusing on youth in detention found.

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Duke Law client’s case highlights the South’s wrongful conviction crisis

April 17, 2017

FACING SOUTH – In the years since his conviction Sharpe has gained allies, including Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic and the Innocence Project, whose efforts led a federal judge to deem their client innocent in 2010.

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Gonzaga Law student to argue tax case before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

April 17, 2017

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Meagan Nibarger, a second-year law student, will face a challenge that few attorneys get to undertake: arguing a case in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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UNLV Law students bid to draft legislation on state’s pari-mutuel wagering

April 17, 2017

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL – Students in UNLV’s Boyd School of Law had to put nerves aside last month when they made appearances before the two regulatory bodies.

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Cornell Law to provide assistance to undocumented students if DACA is repealed

April 17, 2017

CORNELL DAILY SUN – Cornell Law School will also be providing assistance to undocumented students.

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Willamette Law program holds mock trial for local high school students to promote interest in law

April 17, 2017

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY – Salem-Keizer high school students, on campus over spring break, tried a hot coffee-spill case during the Discover Law & Justice program held at Willamette Law.

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DePaul Law students learn through volunteer work at juvenile detention center

April 11, 2017

DEPAULIA – A group of 12 DePaul students taught legal lessons to teenagers at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as part of a collaboration between three law centers.

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Yale Law clinic students testify in favor of bill concerning solitary confinement conditions

April 11, 2017

YALE LAW SCHOOL – Students from the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic at Yale Law School traveled to the State Capitol to testify.

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Toledo Law clinic students help establish city-wide ban on conversion therapy

April 11, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO – The University of Toledo College of Law’s Civil Advocacy Clinic was instrumental in researching, writing, and supporting the ordinance.

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Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic leads inmate appeal in U.S. Court of Appeals

April 11, 2017

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL – Religious Liberty Clinic students have filed an opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an Arizona inmate who lost his prison job for abstaining from work on a religious holiday.

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