University of Michigan Law School’s innocence clinic receives grants to challenge wrongly convicted shaken-baby cases
WASHINGTON TIMES – The law school at the University of Michigan is receiving a $250,000 federal grant to develop expertise to challenge certain child-abuse convictions.
Read More about University of Michigan Law School’s innocence clinic receives grants to challenge wrongly convicted shaken-baby casesUConn Law and Syracuse Law students receive scholarships from National Association of Women Judges
BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE – The Access to Justice Scholarships, which have been renamed for the late Chief Judge Judith Kaye, were given out to Ellie Miske, a second-year student at University of Connecticut School of Law, and Astrid Quinones, a second-year student at Syracuse University School of Law.
Read More about UConn Law and Syracuse Law students receive scholarships from National Association of Women JudgesHarvard Law School students in Criminal Justice Policy Program help win clemency for inmates
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – Twenty-six Harvard Law students volunteered to work with a team of pro bono attorneys to represent clemency petitioners, in what has become the largest law student-based clemency initiative in the country.
Read More about Harvard Law School students in Criminal Justice Policy Program help win clemency for inmatesWisconsin Law’s innocence project helps overturn rape and armed burglary convictions for wrongly convicted man
WKOW (ABC MADISON) – Daryl Holloway was released from Green Bay Correctional Institution Wednesday, after the Wisconsin Innocence Project at UW-Madison helped overturn his 1993 rape and armed burglary convictions.
Read More about Wisconsin Law’s innocence project helps overturn rape and armed burglary convictions for wrongly convicted manMiami Law health rights clinic secures more than $4 million in benefits for clients since 2005
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – The Health Rights Clinic has won over $4 million in benefits for their over 2,000 clients, all from underserved communities, since its inception in 2005.
Read More about Miami Law health rights clinic secures more than $4 million in benefits for clients since 2005Baltimore Law names five students as Legal Writing Fellows
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE – Five law students have been appointed as Legal Writing Fellows for the University of Baltimore School of Law’s Legal Writing Center for the 2016-17 academic year.
Read More about Baltimore Law names five students as Legal Writing FellowsUGA Law Appellate Litigation Clinic successfully receives clemency for client
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW – President Barack Obama granted a clemency petition prepared by students and faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic.
Read More about UGA Law Appellate Litigation Clinic successfully receives clemency for clientUC Hastings Law student leverages tech background at Homeland Security
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW – Tiffany Ku, 3L student at UC Hastings College of Law, spent the summer as a summer clerk for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ku worked on government contracts, trademark issues, and cybersecurity policy within the Office of the General Counsel’s Technology Programs Division.
Read More about UC Hastings Law student leverages tech background at Homeland SecurityMiddle school students get a taste of law school in Baltimore
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW – More than 20 middle school students taking part in Higher Achievement Baltimore’s six-week Summer Academy gathered at the John and Frances Angelos Law Center for a discussion of professional ethics, moot court arguments and discussions with University of Baltimore School of Law students, faculty and staff.
Read More about Middle school students get a taste of law school in BaltimoreArkansas Law student receives recognition for work in food security
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW – Lauren Manning, a student in the Master of Laws in Agricultural and Food Law Program, gained national and international recognition for her work in food security. Manning won the 2016 Human Rights Essay Award, a competition sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law.
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