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Food Truck Blog on the IJ Clinic Mobile Food Symposium
April 18, 2012

On Saturday, the Institute for Justice hosted the first ever Chicago Mobile Food Symposium. They congregated people with various ties to the food truck industry: current food truck owners, aspiring truck owners, city legislators, lawyers, local restaurant owners and of course a bunch of food...

Employment Discrimination Clinic Student Argues Before Seventh Circuit
April 11, 2012

Recently, Lily Becker ('12) from the Employment Discrimination Clinic argued her client's appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Here is Lily's account of that experience.

Chicagoist on Upcoming IJ Clinic Mobile Food Symposium
April 11, 2012

Food trucks in Chicago are in a somewhat stagnant pattern, even as new additions put rubber to road. The proposed legislation which would allow food trucks to cook on board has been held up for months over concerns by the Illinois Restaurant Association and...

Randolph Stone on What is Needed to Create an Effective Indigent Defense System
April 10, 2012

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...

Craig Futterman Featured in Documentary on Police Accountability
April 3, 2012

Clinical Professor Craig Futterman is featured in "Compelled Into Action: Citizens Alert’s Response to Police Torture and Brutality," part three of Peace Production’s documentary on Citizens Alert, a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to police accountability. An excerpt of the video as...

A.V. Club on IJ Clinic's "My Streets, My Eats" Mobile Food Symposium
April 2, 2012

Ever thought about quitting the ol’ 9-to-5 and taking Grandma’s brownie recipe mobile? Considering a snow cone bike? Pondering the pursuit of pushcart push-ups?

Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship -- My Streets My Eats
March 30, 2012

The law throws up barriers in the paths of the most seemingly simple businesses.  For example, the nonprofit organization Fresh Moves, which has converted an old CTA bus into a produce market that visits schools and neighborhoods in Chicago’s food deserts, cannot get a business license.

Craig Futterman comments to Tribune on handling of fatal DUI involving Chicago cop
March 28, 2012

The February 22 issue of the Chicago Tribune contained a comment from Clinical Professor of Law and founder of the Mandel Clinic...

Futterman Speaks with NBC Chicago about SOS Scandal in Chicago Police Department
March 26, 2012

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights -- Immigrant Children, Trafficking . . . And Abortion?
March 6, 2012

The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights sent a delegation to Capitol Hill to push for immigration reform.  What follows is the account of that trip from Young Center clinic students Cathy Yang '13 and Peter Chen '13.

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