Events and News from the Clinical Programs

Clinic Events

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
12:00 PM Clinic Informational Session

Gittis 214, Haaga Classroom

Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:30 PM Studying the “New” Civil Judges
Professors Anna Carpenter and Colleen Shanahan have done groundbreaking research on state civil courts and judges and will present their findings at this workshop, and connect their scholarship to practice, clinical teaching, and supervision.

Silverman 147

Thursday, March 1, 2018
12:00 PM The Case for Brendan Dassey: Teaching Innovation Through Clinical Education
Steven Drizin and Laura Nirider will present the story of their client, Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin sixteen-year-old who falsely confessed in 2005 to rape and murder – and whose ensuing wrongful conviction was featured in the hit Netflix Global docuseries Making a Murderer. Brendan’s case, and the cases of their other clients, exemplify twin problems: the practical problem of false and involuntary confessions from juveniles, and the problematic gaps in constitutional and evidentiary doctrine and practice that have allowed false confessions to occur unredressed. These twin problems serve as the foci of Drizin and Nirider’s practice and pedagogy at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth.

Faculty Lounge

January 29, 2020

Penn Law Transnational Legal Clinic, University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic File Petition Against Migration Protection Protocols (MPP)

Petition filed on one-year anniversary of implementation of MPP program, also known as “Remain in Mexico”
July 16, 2019

Penn Law lecturer Jennifer Nagda testifies before Congress on family separation and migrant detention centers

Nagda is Director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and an adjunct lecturer-in-law in Penn Law’s Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic.
June 28, 2019

Penn Law faculty comment on SCOTUS decision on census citizenship question

In Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that a question on citizenship could not be added to the 2020 census on the basis of the government’s proffered reasoning.
June 27, 2019

Prof. Cindy Dahl comments on SCOTUS decision in trademark case

In Iancu v. Brunetti, the Court held that the Lanham Act’s restriction on “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks violates the Constitution.