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Chicago Tribune Profiles Exoneration Project Staff Attorney Tara Thompson '03
April 27, 2012

If you tracked down Tara Thompson's childhood friends and told them what she was doing these days, she says they wouldn't be surprised.

Students Brief Mobile Food Vendors on Chicago Laws
April 26, 2012

Law students and mobile food vendors came together ON April 14 to talk about what street vendors can and cannot do in Chicago.

The takeaway? They can’t do much, at least legally.

Food Trucks and Freedom: Law School Hosts Symposium on Mobile Food Laws in Chicago
April 26, 2012

Sometimes, the road to the middle class is paved with calzones and tamales. Or maybe hot dogs and doughnuts. 

Chicagoist Recaps IJ Clinic Mobile Food Symposium
April 19, 2012

At 1:30 p.m. this past Saturday in the University of Chicago Law School parking lot, you could buy everything from duck sausage to meatball subs to frozen yogurt for less than 10 dollars each out of a truck.

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?