UNLV Law immigration clinic looks to expand services
LAS VEGAS SUN — At the UNLV Immigration Clinic, law students assist staff attorneys in local deportation cases involving unaccompanied children and those in detention. New funding from the Clark County Commission will boost these services further, strengthening a vital resource during a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted undocumented immigrants. The $500,000 granted to the clinic will be…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — A new clinic created by the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law is the nation’s first to provide legal services to formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessness. The Homeless Advocacy Clinic is just the fourth legal clinic at a California university to help homeless clients – joining programs at UCLA, University…
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON LAW SCHOOL — “If we want to preserve and improve state democracy, we have to first understand it,” said Associate Professor of Law Miriam Seifter in a recent podcast interview. The Law School’s newly launched State Democracy Research Initiative, which Seifter co-directs with Associate Professor of Law Robert Yablon, is an effort…
Read More about University of Wisconsin Law announces state democracy research initiativeUIC Law Fair Housing Clinic honored by Illinois State Bar Association for excellence in legal education
UIC LAW — The Illinois State Bar Association has awarded UIC Law’s Fair Housing Legal Clinic its 2021 Illinois State Bar Association’s Excellence in Legal Education Award, which honors a law school program that emphasizes real world skills for students. UIC Law’s Fair Housing Legal Clinic was nominated for the award by Charles Perkins (‘15), a compliance…
Read More about UIC Law Fair Housing Clinic honored by Illinois State Bar Association for excellence in legal educationUniversity of Miami Law immigration clinic helps overturn discriminatory Florida law in federal court
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s commitment to immigration law and human rights law is center stage. A federal court ruled recently that key sections of Florida’s anti-sanctuary law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, delivering a decision that strikes a major blow to the state’s anti-immigrant policymakers and a…
Read More about University of Miami Law immigration clinic helps overturn discriminatory Florida law in federal courtUniversity of Mississippi Law professor W. Tucker Carrington helps free man on death row
DE SOTO TIMES TRIBUNE — In January 1993, a brutal triple homicide shocked a small Mississippi community: A 13-year-old girl, Evangela Boyd, found dead in her home, her naked body lying on the floor of the laundry room. Her mom, Verline Boyd, and her grandmother, Betty Boyd, found lifeless in other areas of the house, which…
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UNM NEWSROOM — Law students with The University of New Mexico’s Expungement Law Clinic are hosting a hotline, inspired by National Expungement Works’ Week of Action and Awareness, aimed to help individuals across the state gain employment, receive promotions, qualify for loans and much more by cleaning up their records. From Monday, Sept. 27 through Friday, Oct.…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law Expungement Clinic students partner with law firm to create hotlineSouth Texas College of Law Houston provides guidance to area residents facing eviction
SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — Eric Kwartler, Public Interest Attorney in South Texas College of Law Houston’s Randall O. Sorrells Legal Clinics, and several of his law students will be providing guidance to area residents to help them avoid being evicted during a Keep Harris Housed outreach event Thursday, Sept. 30, in Alief. Any tenant…
Read More about South Texas College of Law Houston provides guidance to area residents facing evictionAlbany Law Health Law Clinic receives grant to provide legal services to individuals with HIV/AIDS
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The Health Law Clinic within the Justice Center at Albany Law School is part of a trio of organizations that has received nearly $1 million from the New York State Department of Health to provide legal services for individuals and families grappling with HIV/AIDS and the treatments needed to combat the disease. Led…
Read More about Albany Law Health Law Clinic receives grant to provide legal services to individuals with HIV/AIDSUniversity of Michigan Law professor Margo Schlanger nominated to USDA civil rights post
LEGALNEWS.COM — Margo Schlanger, Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is being nominated by President Joseph Biden to serve as assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). If Schlanger is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will take a leave of absence…
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