USC Law immigration clinic offers representation to asylum clients
USC News – In January, the year-round USC clinic — the only one of its kind among Southern California law schools — will mark its 15th year of offering representation to asylum clients such as Nangha Nangha.
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CHARLESTON GAZETTE MAIL – Successful entrepreneurs need a wide range of supportive services and specialized technical assistance. The WVU College of Law Entrepreneurship and Innovation Law Clinic was honored with the Entrepreneur Support of the Year Award for its long track record of success in providing legal services to start-up companies, small businesses, nonprofits and…
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THE CHICAGO MAROON – The University of Chicago Law School’s Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project (PAP) partnered with the Invisible Institute, a South Side nonprofit, to release a database of Chicago Police Department (CPD) complaints to the public.
Read More about University of Chicago Law’s civil rights and police accountability project releases database of Chicago Police Department complaintsDuke Law environmental law clinic helps young client in climate change case against North Carolina
THE NEWS & OBSERVER – With the help of lawyers from Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based climate change non-profit, attorneys from Duke University’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Gayle Tuch, a Forsyth County lawyer, Hallie seeks to persuade state leaders to adopt rules that would reduce greenhouse gasses.
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WISH (INDIANAPOLIS) – A group of students that are studying law to become attorneys focused their efforts on helping former inmates back into society on Sunday. The Black Law Student Association at the IU McKinney School of Law held a holiday party and called it a ‘New Beginning Holiday Party’ for recently released inmates and…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL – Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08, with amicus support from the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, successfully appealed a New York State court ruling prohibiting a record requestor from suing an agency for unreasonable delay when filing a Freedom of Information Request in the state.
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BLOOMBERG BNA – As dean of Arizona State Law School, Sylvester is gearing up to launch a program in the Fall of 2016 that will give law students experience assessing incoming cases while also chipping away at the access-to-justice problem in America.
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THE SACRAMENTO BEE – [Professor] Pruitt’s memo had played a key role in the first successful prosecution of rape as a war crime, part of a larger case in which a Rwandan mayor named Jean-Paul Akayesu also become the first person convicted of genocide under the Genocide Convention of 1948. Mitchell and filmmaking partner Nick…
Read More about UC Davis Law professor’s role in convicting war criminal leads to documentaryIdaho Law tax law clinic students help low-income residents
IDAHO STATESMAN – “Program Director Barbara Lock recently got in touch with us to let readers know, as tax season approaches, that the service is still available to low- and moderate-income taxpayers. The clinic, staffed by law students, offers free legal services for people who have issues with the IRS.”
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NPR (MAINE) – Maine juveniles in custody can now enter courtrooms shackle-free thanks to a rule change in the state court system. The change comes after a two-year effort by students at the University of Maine School of Law who actively opposed the practice.
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