UC Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic produces videos to ask for clemency for clients
UC BERKELEY LAW — When Leah Roemer and Sophie Hoblit enrolled in Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic last fall, they envisioned spending all year working on legal briefs for clients on death row. Instead, they found themselves behind a camera making a video to request clemency for a longtime clinic client.
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UCLA LAW — Yesterday, the UCLA Environmental Law Clinic filed a brief in the California Restaurant Association v. Berkeley case on behalf of seven law professors: William Boyd, Dan Farber and Sharon Jacobs at UC Berkeley, Jim Rossi at Vanderbilt, David Spence at UT Austin, Shelley Welton at UPenn, and Hannah Wiseman at Penn State.…
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COLUMBIA LAW — Since launching four years ago, the Max Berger Public Interest/Public Service Fellows Program has jumpstarted the public interest and government careers of nearly 50 Columbia Law graduates, and provided more than 100 Columbia Law students with specialized opportunities and support.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW — Twenty Stuart Hobson Middle School students completed their mock trial Monday, which culminated six months of legal coaching from seven GW Law students. D.C. District Court Judge Jia Cobb presided over the trial, which deliberated whether Smith, an imaginary junior, stole another student’s $700 Nikon camera in a make-believe case created…
Read More about George Washington Law students coach local middle schoolers for mock trialUniversity of Miami Law Bankruptcy Clinic helps low-income clients with pro bono legal services
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW — Since 1995, the University of Miami School of Law’s bankruptcy clinic has given current Hurricane law students the opportunity to deliver life-changing pro bono legal services to indigent clients throughout South Florida.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW — On Juneteenth, the Human Rights Program and Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law, together with emergency food providers, legislators, academics, and students from around the United States, launched the Declaration of Miami. The civil society declaration calls for the human rights to food and housing to be…
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW — In addition to live client representation, students in the Investor Rights Clinic conduct a mock arbitration every semester before a panel of arbitrators who decide investor cases filed in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration. This semester, the mock arbitration took place in the Miami Law clinics’ new student workroom…
Read More about University of Miami Law Investor Rights Clinic hosts mock arbitrationUniversity of New Mexico Law clinic aids local community with cannabis record expungement
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LAW — As New Mexico’s courts grapple with expunging thousands of cannabis-related criminal charges, the state’s up-and-coming lawyers are looking to help locals clear their records. “We are able to help folks anywhere in New Mexico,” says Serge Martinez, a University of New Mexico (UNM) law professor. “We see this as…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law clinic aids local community with cannabis record expungementNYU Law professor Deborah Archer honored as outstanding advocate for clinical teachers
NYU LAW — Deborah Archer, associate dean and co-director of clinical and advocacy programs at NYU Law, has received the Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA).
Read More about NYU Law professor Deborah Archer honored as outstanding advocate for clinical teachersNotre Dame Law appoints Lenora Popken as Exoneration Justice Clinic legal fellow
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic has hired alumna Lenora Popken ’20 J.D. as a legal fellow. The Exoneration Justice Clinic, which launched in fall 2020, is committed to correcting miscarriages of justice by investigating, litigating, and overturning wrongful convictions.
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