UC Berkeley Law creates more opportunities for student-led pro bono work
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Two new student-led pro bono projects at Berkeley Law are eager to make their mark, and early signs appear promising for the Homelessness Service Project (led by Stephen Dockery ’19 and Danielle Craig ’20) and the Boalt Police Review Project (led by Emily Storms ’19 and Kristoff Williams ’18).
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Berkeley Law students — Brookes Degen ’19, Michael Deamer ’18, Derek Chipman ’18, and Thao Thai ’18 — helped Oakland’s Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment state its case for preserving online video games that may otherwise be lost to time.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Berkeley Law 1L student Oscar Sarabia Roman is the winner of BARBRI’s One Lawyer Can Change the World Scholarship. Roman described migrating to the United States as a young child, getting deported 15 years later, and wanting to become a lawyer who could “impact the lives of…
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in the Policy Advocacy Clinic helped gain a key victory in its national push to end administrative fees charged to families of youth in the juvenile justice system. The Orleans Parish Juvenile Court adopted a policy to stop charging such fees.
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MEDIUM — Andrea Lampros and Alexa Koenig of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, discuss what students are learning about resilience and human rights in the Human Rights Investigations Lab. In addition to cultivating resilience, the program — developed in close partnership with our students — focuses on awareness, community, and impact.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Arkansas Law 2L student Michael Adkins has won the Arent Fox/Dale Bumpers Excellence in Writing Award. Adkins examines the Global Food Security Act of 2016, tracing its structure in context of the contemporary realities of global food insecurity.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW — The 2018 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review honored Arizona Law 3L student Alex Erwin with a Honorable Mention distinction. His original article, “Hybridizing Law: A Policy for Hybridization under the Endangered Species Act,” was published in the Environmental Law Reporter in July 2017.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW — 3L student Pete Sabori became the first Arizona Law student to appear as a student practitioner in tribal court representing a tribe. As a participant in Arizona Law’s Tribal Justice Clinic, Sabori represented the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, acting as a prosecuting attorney in a juvenile criminal case. …
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Two Tulane students, 3L student Lydia Winkler and MBA student Marco Nelson, are the creators of RentCheck, a rental inspection app that allows both tenants and landlords to track a property’s condition using time-stamped photos. Winkler knows the tenant perspective and Nelson is a landlord.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M Law 2L student Alex Antonio worked with transportation experts to co-author his first legal research publication, a policy brief addressing new legislation necessitated by new inventions titled “How Does Texas Law Change the Legal Landscape for Automated Vehicles?”
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