Santa Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence Project
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY — Obie Anthony III was supposed to die in prison—for a crime he did not commit. What saved him and 32 other wrongly convicted California inmates, who had spent a combined 480 years in prison by the time they were freed? The Northern California Innocence Project. For two decades, the non-profit that opened its doors at the…
Read More about Santa Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence ProjectUC Irvine Law student Laura Flores awarded fellowship for public service work
UCI LAW — University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce that third-year student Laura Flores was awarded a prestigious, and highly competitive, Skadden Fellowship for public service work. Flores won the fellowship for her proposed project with Justice Action Center in Los Angeles, which will combine litigation and other advocacy…
Read More about UC Irvine Law student Laura Flores awarded fellowship for public service workUniversity of Cincinnati Law launches clinic to address justice gap for low-income communities
UC CINCINNATI — The University of Cincinnati College of Law today announced the launch the Legal Access Clinic (LAC), a new effort designed to address the access to justice gap for low- and-middle-income people in the tristate. The clinic is scheduled to open Fall 2022, when it will serve its first clients. Sarah Adkins, an attorney with extensive nonprofit…
Read More about University of Cincinnati Law launches clinic to address justice gap for low-income communitiesUniversity of Miami Law students help free wrongfully convicted man
CBS MIAMI — A Jacksonville man wrongfully convicted of armed robbery was just released last month, and it’s thanks in part to law students at the University of Miami. After 8 years of his life was taken away, Dustin Duty walked out of a Jacksonville jail on October 27th, 2021, smiling and grateful. “Just my faith in God…
Read More about University of Miami Law students help free wrongfully convicted manYale Law Housing Clinic helps local residents facing eviction, foreclosures, and fair housing issues
YALE DAILY NEWS — In light of the economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Law School Housing Clinic has intensified its fight for local and national housing justice. The clinic provides law students with the opportunity to practice direct service across three tracks: evictions, foreclosures and fair housing. Each track offers a different scope of…
Read More about Yale Law Housing Clinic helps local residents facing eviction, foreclosures, and fair housing issuesCharleston Law housing clinic provides legal support to area residents facing eviction
THE POST AND COURIER — The Charleston School of Law is partnering with a local nonprofit to help low-income families involved in housing disputes, almost all of whom fight their cases without legal representation. The partnership was announced two years after the release of a report from the S.C. State Housing Finance and Development Authority that revealed South…
Read More about Charleston Law housing clinic provides legal support to area residents facing evictionUniversity of Baltimore Law Innocence Project Clinic helps exonerate man after 17 years in prison
CNN — David Morris has spent almost 17 years in prison for a murder that he didn’t commit. On Wednesday, a judge threw out his conviction following a review of evidence that determined Morris was wrongfully charged and found guilty in 2005, according to the Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City. Baltimore Circuit Judge Charles…
Read More about University of Baltimore Law Innocence Project Clinic helps exonerate man after 17 years in prisonHarvard Law student Nathan Lowry discusses life as a law student after service as a Marine
HARVARD LAW TODAY — As is the case for many U.S. Marines, Nathan Lowry ’24 has strong feelings about the withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan this summer after 20 years of combat. Did the Biden administration do the right thing? “It’s a tough one,” says Lowry, who served five-and-a-half years in the Marines as a…
Read More about Harvard Law student Nathan Lowry discusses life as a law student after service as a MarinePepperdine Law students connect local homeless community with services
PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Pepperdine Caruso School of Law clinics, students, and faculty supported the annual Connect Day in Malibu on October 7. The Malibu Community Assistance Resource Team (C.A.R.T.) helped organize the event to bring together resources for homeless and unhoused people in the local community, including eye exams, counseling, benefits, clean-slate guidance,…
Read More about Pepperdine Law students connect local homeless community with servicesUniversity of Virginia Law student Fernando Mercado-Violand to advise Virginia governor on environmental issues
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — First-year student Fernando Mercado-Violand will be shaping public policy even as he starts earning his degree at the University of Virginia School of Law: Gov. Ralph Northam appointed him to the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice on Sept. 17. Before law school, Mercado-Violand served as deputy White House liaison at…
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