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

June 24, 2020

Legislative Clinic opens doors for students passionate about public policy

Practice Professor Louis S. Rulli guides the Legislative Clinic through which law students receive placements in various legislative offices from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to the City Council of Philadelphia.
June 19, 2020

Appellate Advocacy Clinic’s inaugural year a resounding success with students

The Appellate Advocacy Clinic focused on issues of economic justice in the criminal law contest.
June 2, 2020

Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation through tech-enabled lawyers of the future

A partnership between Penn Law’s Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic and CPA Global prepares law students for careers of the future through the use of sophisticated tech tools.
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”