Clinic at Yale Law School highlights need to protect veterans from predatory colleges
YALE LAW SCHOOL – Senator Richard Blumenthal ’73 and the advocacy group Veterans Education Success have called on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to act against the deceptive recruitment of veterans by predatory colleges citing a recent legal memorandum produced by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School.
Read More about Clinic at Yale Law School highlights need to protect veterans from predatory collegesHarvard Law students spend spring break working with clinics and legal organizations
HARVARD LAW TODAY – This year, during the week of March 11-18, students worked locally at the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association; at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS)/Legal Advocacy and Resource Center (LARC); and at the law school’s own Legal Services Center (LSC)/Veterans Legal Clinic.
Read More about Harvard Law students spend spring break working with clinics and legal organizationsSeton Hall Law international human rights clinic obtains asylum for abused family
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – The Center for Social Justice celebrated a victory in February: the Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic obtained asylum for a woman and her two children, survivors of severe domestic violence and child abuse in their native Honduras.
Read More about Seton Hall Law international human rights clinic obtains asylum for abused familyVermont Law School students volunteer legal assistance to asylum-seeking mothers and children in detention centers
VT DIGGER – This month a group of Vermont Law School students volunteered with the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project in Texas to provide legal assistance to asylum-seeking mothers and children being held at detention centers by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Read More about Vermont Law School students volunteer legal assistance to asylum-seeking mothers and children in detention centersHarvard Law School center announces collaboration on advanced care and health policy project
HARVARD LAW TODAY – The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) today announced a new collaboration, The Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy.
Read More about Harvard Law School center announces collaboration on advanced care and health policy projectIndiana Maurer Law provides free tax assistance through clinics
INDIANA DAILY STUDENT – The IU IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program helps hundreds of local taxpayers file state and federal tax returns every year.
Read More about Indiana Maurer Law provides free tax assistance through clinicsUNLV Law students learn about Nevada’s rural court system for alternative spring break
KNPR (NPR NEVADA) – In its fourth year, it’s a law school program to expose students to the rural court system in Nevada.
Read More about UNLV Law students learn about Nevada’s rural court system for alternative spring breakCampbell Law to launch new clinic providing legal services to nonprofit agencies and their clients
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY – The new clinic will provide backup legal services free of charge to area non-profit agencies and their clients when legal issues complicate such important steps as acquiring housing or a new career.
Read More about Campbell Law to launch new clinic providing legal services to nonprofit agencies and their clientsSeattle Law international human rights clinic aids in release of activist from Mexican prison
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER – Salgado’s release came in large part through more than two years of efforts by Seattle University School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, which argued her cause before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Read More about Seattle Law international human rights clinic aids in release of activist from Mexican prisonYale Law’s Media and Freedom Information Access Clinic wins lethal injection case in Missouri
YALE LAW SCHOOL – The Media and Freedom Information Access Clinic secured a victory in a Missouri Circuit Court on March 21, 2016 when a judge ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) was required under state law to disclose the names of the pharmacies from which it purchases the drugs used to execute…
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