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Housing Initiative Clinic weighs in on Cook County Land Bank Proposal
November 15, 2012

On behalf of the Housing Initiative Clinic, Sarah Iftekhar '14 and Stephanie Yesnik '14 have completed a...

Huffington Post Highlights Exoneration Project Client's First Vote for President
November 14, 2012

The article, by the Chicago Innocence Project's David Protess, describes the first experience of voting in a presidential election by Exoneration...

Corporate Lab in ABA Criminal Justice Section Newsletter
November 7, 2012

The work of the Corporate Lab was recently recognized in the ABA's Criminal Justice Section Newsletter:

Futterman, Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project Featured in Series of Reports on Drug Forfeiture Laws
October 12, 2012

A recent series of investigative reports in the Galesburg Register-Mail on the Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act featured a number of quotes from Clinical Professor Craig Futterman, director of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, and...

Student Argues 7th Circuit Case for Federal Criminal Justice Clinic
October 4, 2012

In May 2012, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic student Amanda Penabad (’12) presented oral argument to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Luis Marin-Castano. The Clinic did not represent Mr.

Housing Initiative Closes on NSP Property Acquisition
September 28, 2012

The Housing Initiative Clinic closed this week on a property acquisition under the City of Chicago's Neighborhood Stabilization Program.   Clinic students Ashley Graffeo '14 and William Panfel '14, along with Clinical...

University of Chicago Magazine on The Exoneration Project
September 13, 2012

On the night of April 18, 1990, taxi driver Billy G. Williams, 44, was found dead in his cab, shot in the head on Chicago’s South Side. Two days later, 20-year-old Shawn Whirl was arrested and confessed to the murder. He pleaded guilty and has been in prison ever since.

Love Goes to Texas
September 7, 2012

Kristin Love is moving to Harlingen, Texas to open an office for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Harlingen is a city on the U.S./Mexico border, with...

The Young Center Appears Before United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva
September 5, 2012

On June 18th, Maria Woltjen, Director of the Young Center Clinic, appeared before the United  Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Committee on the...

Alison Siegler Named to Committee to Assist in Selecting Federal District Court Judges for Northern District of Illinois
August 13, 2012

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