Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project

Responding to concerns about gun violence in her South Side neighborhood, Chicago Treasurer Stephanie D. Neely recently called in a Tribune op-ed for the Chicago Police Department to adopt a "proactive and courageous" strategy known as "stop-and-frisk." Neely compared people randomly being stopped and searched on the city's streets to passengers going through airport security.

In summer 2013 the clinical law program plans to hire a number of law students to work in the various clinics in the Kane Center.  Positions will be open for the following clinics:

Twenty-five years from now, every indigent person accused of crime will be defended by a lawyer who provides zealous and loyal representation. Depending on your familiarity with the American legal system, you probably either assume such representation already occurs—or that the prospect is a pipe dream. Either way, you’re wrong.

The Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project began representing Italo Sanders when he was 16 years old, accused of killing a man based on the word of a 7-year-old eyewitness in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes.

“The goal is not perfection; the goal is excellence,” Randolph Stone, Clinical Professor of Law, is often heard saying in the halls of the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.

Dana M. Davenport was just a second-year law student at the University of Chicago Law School when she began using the law to make a difference in the lives of others.

She had started to work with the school's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, and one of her first cases was the classic example of an adolescent being in the wrong place at the wrong time.