Chapman Law criminal law clinics help student gain courtroom experience
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY DALE E. FOWLER SCHOOL OF LAW — In August, Chapman University opened its Chapman’s criminal prosecution clinic. A criminal defense clinic starts in January. Chapman’s Fowler School of Law also offers clinics for students interested in practicing elder law, tax law and mediation, and working with entertainment contracts.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Beginning this spring semester, criminal appeals will be added to the University of Houston Law Center clinic program. The Death Penalty & Criminal Appeals Clinic is spearheaded by Clinical Supervising Attorney Jeffrey R. Newberry as well as David R. Dow, Cullen Professor at UH Law Center and founder the…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — Minnesota Law School will launch a Gun Violence Prevention Clinic in January 2023. The clinic is believed to be the first in-house law school clinic in the nation with a focus on promoting gun violence prevention through strategic litigation. The clinic will utilize student pro bono legal work to…
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Clinical Law Prof Blog (by Jeff Baker) — Professor Baker (Pepperdine Law) shares a statement from the Clinical Legal Education Association regarding law schools’ recent boycott of US News rankings.
Read More about CLEA Statement on US News Rankings for Clinical ProgramsHow law school low-income taxpayer clinics improve access to justice
BLOOMBERG TAX — The Center for Taxpayer Rights is collaborating with LITCs and other activists around the country to strengthen procedural tax justice. They plan to propose models of state legislation that would expand the funding of LITCs—funded by Congress only for IRS tax disputes—to enable those LITCs to address state tax disputes as well.
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DUKE LAW — Michael Murphy, a legal educator with a wide range of practice experience, will join Duke Law in January as clinical professor of law and supervising attorney of the Start-Up Ventures Clinic. Murphy is clinical supervisor and lecturer in law of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School,…
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CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — Campbell Law School Adjunct Professor Rick Glazier, former state legislator and executive director of the N.C. Justice Center, will become the director of Campbell Law’s Blanchard Community Law Clinic (BCLC) effective Jan. 1, 2023, Dean J. Rich Leonard announced today. The clinic’s mission is to help individuals being served by…
Read More about Campbell Law professor Rick Glazier named director of Blanchard Community Law ClinicDuke Law expunction clinics help individuals recovering from addiction
DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Through TROSA, a 24-month residential recovery program located in Durham for men and women from across North Carolina, people like Anthony Darity has been able to secure a stable job and get access to health care. Thanks to a recent clinic offered at TROSA’s James St. campus by the…
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — This semester, Fordham Law launched the Global Anti-Racism Clinic—one of the first of its kind in the country. A joint initiative of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and the Center on Race, Law and Justice, the Clinic engages students in projects that aim to challenge and…
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PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY RICK J. CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Pepperdine Caruso Law Restoration and Justice Clinic third-year students and court-court certified law clerks Mags Campbell and Eleezay Bokhari filed a Vacatur Petition for a human trafficking client at the Clara Foltz Criminal Courthouse. Their client was trafficked for over a decade, accumulating arrests and convictions…
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