Clinicals Expose Law Students to Challenging Public Interest Issues at Home and Abroad
Last week we covered news of law students providing pro bono services to clients in under-served areas. This week, we’ve come across a few articles covering the good work of students through clinical programs:
- The National Law Journal reports that the University of Michigan Law School ” has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to establish a human trafficking clinic at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Unidad Académica de Derecho, a law school located in north central Mexico. The Mexican clinic is an offshoot of the human trafficking clinic that Michigan launched in 2009, which was the first of its kind in the United States.” It’s an interesting approach to addressing a problem – human trafficking – that by definition defies international border controls, while at the same time exposing the Michigan and the Mexican law school’s students to transnational practice issues.
- According to the Charlottesville Daily Progress, two students in the University of Virginia School of Law’s Innocence Project Clinic played a role in helping to overturn a death sentence conviction in the state’s high court.