Yale Law students help overturn wrongful conviction
YALE LAW SCHOOL — A group of devoted law students in Yale’s Juvenile Justice Clinic helped to exonerate their client, Vernon Horn, from a crime he did not commit. On April 25, 2018, after 17 years in prison, Horn walked out of a New Haven Superior Court a free man, completely exonerated from the crime.
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — West Virginia Law rising 2L student Emily Cramer was awarded the American Bar Association’s prestigious Janet Dempsey Steiger Fellowship. Cramer will receive a $6,000 stipend to work eight weeks in the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the West Virginia Attorney General in Charleston this summer.
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — Students in the West Virginia Law’s Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic successfully appealed two denial of claim decisions by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee Law 2L students Bethny Barrett and Lauren Bennett both organized summer internships through the Shepherd Program. Barrett worked at Women’s Center for Advancement in Omaha, N.E., and Bennett worked at the Mecklenburg County Public Defenders Office in Charlotte, N.C.
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THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee Law 3L students Kendall Manning and Aileen Almonte provide a snapshot into a typical week working in the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
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THE COLUMNS — A group of Washington & Lee Law students was in Germany over spring break for an intensive week-long exploration of German law and legal culture. The Transatlantic Seminar brings together American and German law students for a scholarly exchange on both countries’ legal systems, with an emphasis on Constitutional Law.
Read More about Washington & Lee Law students explore German law and legal cultureWake Forest Law student wins writing prize on reproductive rights law
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Wake Forest Law student Hailey Cleek (JD/MA ’19) is the first place winner of the 2018 Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights Law, co-sponsored by If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law.
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VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW — Villanova Law student Alyssa Pooler ’19 was one of thirty students, and the only law student from the United States, selected for the Inter-Policy School Summit at the University of Chicago. Students explore innovative strategies to address the interrelated issues of cybersecurity and trade.
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — Vanderbilt Law 1L student Amber Banks has been named the Garrison Social Justice Scholar for the Class of 2020. The Garrison Social Justice Scholar receives a supplemental annual scholarship for the second and third years of law school, as well as stipend support for unpaid public interest legal work during the two summers…
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — A group of Vanderbilt Law students in the Medical–Legal Partnership Clinic project provide seniors with information and assistance in creating the medical and legal documents needed to assure that the patients’ wishes are known and carried out if needed in the future.
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