Fordham Law launches professionalism fellows program
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law’s office of professionalism has launched a new one-year fellowship program for six upper-year students with an interest in and commitment to promoting professionalism, mentorship, and inclusion within the Law School.
Read More about Fordham Law launches professionalism fellows programHarvard Law Food Law and Policy Clinic releases The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas mapping barriers to food donation
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) released a first-of-its-kind interactive resource to inspire long-term policy solutions to food waste, hunger, and climate change: The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas.
Read More about Harvard Law Food Law and Policy Clinic releases The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas mapping barriers to food donationSeton Hall Law graduate Fabiana Pierre-Louis reflects on Summer Institute for Pre-Legal Studies
ROI-NJ.COM — Fabiana Pierre-Louis, first black woman nominated for N.J. Supreme Court, got her start in Seton Hall pre-legal program built around Educational Opportunity Fund.
Read More about Seton Hall Law graduate Fabiana Pierre-Louis reflects on Summer Institute for Pre-Legal StudiesUniversity of Miami Law Environmental Justice Clinic develops tool to prevent displacement of vulnerable populations
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — The communities the Environmental Justice Clinic serves are particularly vulnerable to displacement because of the high proportion of renters and the rent burdens they face. In response to concerns raised by the clinic’s community partners, the EJC developed the Displacement Vulnerability and Mitigation Tool, known as the DVMT or the Anti-Displacement…
Read More about University of Miami Law Environmental Justice Clinic develops tool to prevent displacement of vulnerable populationsSt. Mary’s and University of Texas law clinics create eviction hotline
ST.MARY’S UNIVERSITY — The hotline is a collaboration between St. Mary’s Law’s Consumer Protection Clinic and Pro Bono Program, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, and the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic of the University of Texas School of Law.
Read More about St. Mary’s and University of Texas law clinics create eviction hotlineSMU Dedman Law launches COVID-19 legal helpline for North Texas residents
SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — Beginning June 1, SMU Dedman School of Law will launch a clinic project with an emergency helpline that offers North Texas residents the opportunity to secure free legal assistance with matters related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as housing, immigration and consumer protection.
Read More about SMU Dedman Law launches COVID-19 legal helpline for North Texas residentsUniversity of Virginia Law professor Crystal Shin to direct clinic on juvenile defense
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Crystal Shin ’10 will step down as director of the Program in Law and Public Service to direct a new University of Virginia School of Law clinic. The clinic, which starts this spring and has yet to be formally named, will focus on holistic juvenile defense.
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Crystal Shin to direct clinic on juvenile defenseUniversity of Virginia Law assistant dean Annie Kim expands Public Service Center program
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center and Program in Law and Public Service will join forces under one leader, Assistant Dean for Public Service Annie Kim ’99, while adding a new, full-time director of public service to assist in counseling students. The school will also offer more skills-based courses to prepare students for…
Read More about University of Virginia Law assistant dean Annie Kim expands Public Service Center programFordham Law Immigration Rights Clinic succeeds in granting green cards for client family
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On March 9, 2020, just before Fordham University shut down its campus, a client of Fordham Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) came to the Law School to pick up an envelope containing green cards for her and her two daughters. The day was over four years in the making.
Read More about Fordham Law Immigration Rights Clinic succeeds in granting green cards for client familyUniversity of Michigan Law Innocence Clinic urges state officials to overturn conviction of client
WNEM CBS — Temujin Kensu, also known as Fred Freeman, has been in prison for 33 years on a life sentence. The University of Michigan law school’s Innocence Clinic, joined by public figures, has long argued that he was wrongly convicted of killing a man in a Port Huron college parking lot in 1986.
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