Chicago Law students explore issues affecting young people in special seminar on rights of minors
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Chicago-area high school students signed up for Chicago Law Professor Emily Buss’s special seminar on the constitutional rights of minors. Chicago Law students serving as Buss’ teaching assistants taught local youth and explored issues that affect young people.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Chicago Law 1L student Subria Whitaker reflects on her trip to Memphis and the key takeaways from the experience. The bus tour was organized by Rainbow PUSH to recognize the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 2018
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Three Chicago Law students — Alli Hugi, ’18, Eian Katz, ’18, and Marcela Barba, ’19 — in the International Human Rights Clinic traveled to Mexico preparing for the fact-finding mission they hoped would help curb violence and discrimination against women in the Mexican agriculture industry.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Two Chicago Law students, Darrius Atkins, ’19 Kevin Carlson, ’19, published an op-ed about the environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) policy shift favoring private redevelopment in The Chicago Reporter. Atkins and Carlson argued that the EPA’s Superfund site policy could advance gentrification in communities of color.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW — UC Hastings 2L student Jessica Valadez was awarded a Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation Summer Grant, which will provide financial support for her summer clerkship working on juvenile delinquency cases at the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Two Berkeley Law students, Mei-Wah Lee ’18 and Zahraa Hadi ’18, from the Post-Conviction Advocacy Project helped their client, Chris Deragon, to create supportive post-release plans before his parole hearing.
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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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