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Diversity Month Program: The Impact of Gangs on the Criminal Justice System and Chicago's South Side

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Date: 
01.22.2013
Location: 
Room I
Neighbors, The South Asian Law Students Association, and The Criminal Law Society Present: 
The Impact of Gangs on the Criminal Justice System and Chicago's South Side
Rudy Nimocks, Director of Community Partnerships at the University of Chicago and former Chicago Police Chief, Herschella Conyers, Clinical Professor: Criminal and Juvenile Jus

Diversity Month Program: Standish Willis on Race and Mass Incarceration in Chicago

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Date: 
01.18.2013
Location: 
Room V.

Criminal defense attorney Standish E. Willis is quick to make enemies in his work, but only because he insists on doing the right thing. Born in Chicago on August 16, 1941, the ex-gang member-turned-lawyer simply followed his conscience in choosing to take on unpopular clients whose civil rights are violated.

Public Defender Brownbag Series: Nuts & Bolts of Loan Repayment on a Public Interest Salary

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Date: 
05.03.2012
Location: 
Room V

Come learn about your options for making a public interest career path—including public defender careers—affordable. This event will feature a presentation by Dean Perry, Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid. Dean Perry will discuss how the Law School can assist you as you begin your public interest job after graduation.

Criminal Law Society presents Public Defender Brownbag Series: Fellowship Panel

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Date: 
04.06.2012
Location: 
Room V

Panelists will discuss their fellowship experiences and their advice on preparing and applying for a fellowship. They will share how their fellowships have prepared them for criminal defense-related work and will highlight opportunities for internships, jobs, and fellowships at the organizations they have worked for.

About the panelists:

Public Defender Brownbag Lunch Series Kick-Off

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Date: 
01.05.2012
Location: 
University of Chicago Law School, Classroom V

The Criminal Law Society and its faculty advisor, Professor Siegler, invite interested students to attend the first lunch in the new Public Defender Brownbag Lunch Series, which will be co-sponsored by OCS.

Faculty: 
Alison Siegler

Criminal Law Society and Office of Career Services presents a Criminal Law Career Panel

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Date: 
11.16.2011
Location: 
Law School Room III

The panel will contain four practitioners in criminal law including a former AUSA for the Northern District of Illinois, former State's Attorney, former Federal Defender, and former State Defender.

Faculty: 
Alison Siegler

The Criminal Law Society presents "Life as an FBI Agent"

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Date: 
05.19.2011
Location: 
Law School Room I

Nikki Skovran from the Federal Bureau of Investigation will discuss life as an FBI agent, investigations, and how the bureau works with the US and States Attorneys offices.

Criminal Law Society presents "Race, Poverty, Innocence & Death: Why Other States Will Follow Illinois in Abolishing Capital Punishment"

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Date: 
05.03.2011
Location: 
Room III

Stephen B. Bright is president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights and teaches at Yale Law School. He served as director of the Center from 1982 through 2005, and has been in his present position since the start of 2006. He has taught at Yale since 1993.

BLSA, NLG, Outlaw, and Criminal Law Society present "Queer (In)Justice" - author Joey Mogul speaks

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Date: 
03.29.2011

 

Joey Mogul will be speaking about her new book, and about her work.

Lunch provided.

Queer (In)Justice

 by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock

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