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Exoneration Project's Tara Thompson Featured on "True Crime with Aphrodite Jones"
March 12, 2013

Reflections on Menard Correctional Center and Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
March 8, 2013

Recently, clinic student Sarah Staudt ('13) and colleagues from the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic interviewed two clients serving mandatory life-without-parole sentences at Menard Correctional Center.  Sarah's...

Randolph Stone's Tribune Op-Ed on the Collateral Consequences of Stop-and-Frisk
March 6, 2013

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...

Exoneration Project Featured in Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
January 24, 2013

After lawyers with the Exoneration Project agreed to handle his murder case, James Kluppelberg said he believed their work would lead to his freedom.

And it did.

Kluppelberg got released in May after 24 years in prison. A Cook County circuit judge dismissed charges that resulted...

Federal Criminal Justice Clinic Provides Students with Real-World Experience
January 22, 2013

First-time criminal defendant Mohammed Smith was skeptical when he found out he had been assigned a team of third-year law students as his court-appointed legal counsel.

But the young advocates at the University of Chicago Law School’s...

Alison Siegler Discusses SCOTUS and Mandatory Minimums on WBEZ
January 15, 2013

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Alleyne v. United States. The case could overhaul mandatory minimum sentencing requirements. Alison Siegler of the University of Chicago’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic was at the hearings and filed a brief with the court that...

Clinic Honors Tom Peters, Longtime Friend and Co-Counsel
January 15, 2013

Clinical Professor Craig Futterman was feeling a bit desperate the first time he asked civil rights attorney Tom Peters for help. Futterman was new to the Law School and had just started the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, the first clinic of its kind in the country.

Kane Center Clinics Hiring for Summer 2013
January 8, 2013

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:

Abrams Environmental Law Clinic Files Lawsuit to Protect Starved Rock State Park
December 21, 2012

On December 12th, on behalf of the Sierra Club, Prairie Rivers Network, and Openlands, the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic filed a complaint in Circuit Court in Springfield, Illinois demanding judicial review of a massive open pit...

Tribune and Sun-Times Report on Futterman's Amicus Brief in Abbate Case
December 13, 2012

The Chicago Tribune and the ...