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Clinic Students Win Right to Access Police Disciplinary Data
February 7, 2012

The Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic has long been working to expose abuses by the Special Operations unit of the Chicago Police Department...

Corporate Lab Publishes "Complying With the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Practical Primer"
February 2, 2012

This “new era” of FCPA enforcement has resulted in many things.  From my perspective, one of the best things it has resulted in is increased attention of the FCPA and FCPA compliance among academics and students.

Federal Criminal Justice Clinic Sentencing Victory
February 2, 2012

A few days ago, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic students Amanda Penabad and James Kraehenbuehl convinced U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo to sentence a client to probation with an ankle monitor rather than sending him to prison for 10–16 months, as the government had requested.

NYTimes Discusses Federal Sentencing Guidelines with Alison Siegler
December 12, 2011

Larry Lessig was a perfectly unplanned warm-up act for Rod Blagojevich last week, especially if you wonder just...

Exoneration Project Presents New Evidence in Attempt to Reverse Murder Conviction
December 8, 2011

A parade of witnesses who testified against Jamie Snow at his 2001 murder trial have recanted, creating a pool of new evidence that could reverse Snow’s murder conviction, an attorney for the former Bloomington man told the 4th District Appellate court Wednesday.

Siegler on How Blagojevich is Getting Off Easy
December 4, 2011

Rod Blagojevich is a lucky man. He is lucky that the U.S. attorney's office is asking U.S. District Judge James Zagel to send him to prison for only 15 to 20 years.

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on New Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
December 2, 2011

The University of Chicago Law School will launch its new Abrams Environmental Law Clinic in January.

It will be led by the former director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Mark Templeton, 42, said dean...

Mark N. Templeton to Direct New Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
November 30, 2011

Dean Michael H. Schill is pleased to announce that Mark N. Templeton will join the Law School as an assistant clinical professor to direct the Law School’s new Abrams Environmental Law Clinic.

Exoneration Project Wins New Trial for Man Convicted of Murder
November 21, 2011

Students in the University of Chicago Law School’s Exoneration Project have helped a man convicted in a 1994 Chicago murder win a new trial based on DNA evidence that links the slaying to another man.

Students in Exoneration Project Help Free Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder
November 4, 2011

For the second time this year, the hard work of University of Chicago Law School students in the Exoneration Project has successfully...