Home : Clinical Programs : The Advocate

The Advocate

Major Victory for Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic
April 16, 2013

Sarah Staudt, Class of 2013, provides this update on a major victory in the clinic’s work on juvenile life-without-parole sentences:

Alison Siegler Explains Significance of U.S. v. Davila on WBEZ's Afternoon Shift
April 15, 2013

Alison Siegler of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic's Federal Criminal Justice Clinic [filed an amicus brief in] U.S. v. Anthony Davila in front of the Supreme Court Monday. The case involved a judge breaking from neutrality by pressuring a defendant to plead guilty. Siegler explains why this case...

Sital Kalantry on Reforming Sexual Violence Laws in India
March 15, 2013

The debate in India surrounding  reforms to the sexual violence laws are a reflection of the changing mores in Indian society.

Kalantry on Women in Argentine Prisons
March 12, 2013

An article appeared in the New York Times Magazine yesterday about a physics professor who claims he was duped into unknowingly...

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...