UC IRVINE LAW — Law professor Katharine Tinto is the director for the Criminal Justice Clinic at the UC Irvine School of Law. Students are required to take a clinic where they work on real cases. Tinto and her team work on several programs, including compassionate release and excessive sentences projects, representing people who are serving decades-long terms that wouldn’t be issued today and those who are aging or in failing health. They have represented 19 clients, and 16 have been released.