Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project

This summer the clinical law program plans to hire a number of law students to work in their various clinics in the Kane Center.  The Mandel Legal Aid Clinic projects, the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and the Exoneration Project Clinic seek energetic, dedicated and motivated students for these positions.  Students

The Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project began representing Italo Sanders when he was 16 years old, accused of killing a man based on the word of a 7-year-old eyewitness in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes.

“The goal is not perfection; the goal is excellence,” Randolph Stone, Clinical Professor of Law, is often heard saying in the halls of the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.

Dana M. Davenport was just a second-year law student at the University of Chicago Law School when she began using the law to make a difference in the lives of others.

She had started to work with the school's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, and one of her first cases was the classic example of an adolescent being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The DuPage County State’s Attorney and a Republican state representative yesterday called for Governor Rod Blagojevich to lift the moratorium on the death penalty. They say the notoriously flawed system has been reformed.

In July 2003, the Civil Rights Police Accountability Project and the Criminal Justice Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic won a significant settlement in a federal civil rights case on the behalf of Nevles Traylor, a forty-four year old African American man from the South side of Chicago.