June

Alumni Tackle Injustice

June 14, 2012
In a cheerful Hunting Park community center, alumni joined other attorneys and law students in April to battle an insidious form of injustice: inaccurate criminal records.
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Clinic Placements Offer Rich Insights

June 14, 2012
Four students got firsthand experience and insights about the interactions between international and domestic law through clinics completed during the spring in Mexico and Namibia.
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Justice 101

June 14, 2012
Few students have the chance to right a wrong before they even graduate from law school, but Jessica Farris did exactly that. Farris’ first year in law school and her commencement were bookends of a remarkable educational journey that gave her experience in the law and helped free an innocent man who’d spent half his life in prison.
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Stepping into an Advocate's Shoes

June 14, 2012
If public school officials violate a learning-disabled student’s legal right to special education services, what – exactly – must be done?

The intricate legal dimensions of that question took center stage in a Special Education Law class that put students in the roles of attorneys, school officials and parents who routinely wrestle with such issues.
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A Nearly Front Row Seat for History

June 14, 2012
On a brilliant spring day when the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to hear one of the most closely watched arguments in a generation, Washington’s cherry blossoms bloomed, protesters gathered in the nation’s capitol and Professor Robert Field sat at the center of the spectacle, moonlighting as a journalist.
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Trading in a White Coat for a Black Suit

June 14, 2012
In 2008, Hiromi Sanders was putting her Ph.D. in human physiology to excellent use, studying epilepsy at Columbia University, in New York City.
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June

Alumni Tackle Injustice

Clinic Placements Offer Rich Insights

Justice 101

Stepping into an Advocate's Shoes

A Nearly Front Row Seat for History

Trading in a White Coat for a Black Suit