Mandel Clinic

Kane Center Clinics Hiring for Summer 2012

2012 Summer Jobs in the Kane Center Clinics
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Law School Office of Communications
January 13, 2012

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

Faculty: 
Jeff Leslie

Applications Now Being Accepted for Summer Clinic Jobs

Applications Now Being Accepted for Summer Clinic Jobs
Law School Office of Communications
January 18, 2011

This summer the IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship, the Immigrant Children’s Advocacy Project, the Exoneration Project and the Edwin F.

Mark Heyrman Talks with Daily Kos About Mental Health, Insanity, and Criminal Law

Jared Loughner, Mental Health and the Law
Adam B
Daily Kos.com
January 10, 2011

I know enough to know what I don't know, and then I turn to the experts. Prof. Mark Heyrman has taught at The University of Chicago Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic since 1978, where he supervises students in litigation and legislative advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illness, and teaches a course on Law and the Mental Health System.

Faculty: 
Mark J. Heyrman

Alison Siegler Testifies Before United States Sentencing Commission

Testimony Before the United States Sentencing Commission
Alison Siegler
United States Sentencing Commission
January 25, 2010

Last week, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Project Alison Siegler testified at the final of seven hearings held by the United States Sentencing Commission to gather input about the U.

Faculty: 
Alison Siegler

Jeffrey Haas, "What Makes Lawyers Passionate About Their Work: A Radical Perspective"

Jeffrey Haas is a 1967 graduate of the Law School and was one of the founders of People's Law Office. He was introduced by Clinical Professor of Law Randolph Stone.


51:49 minutes (47.45 MB)

Chicago Lawyer Magazine Highlights Mandel Clinic

University of Chicago: Making a difference in law school
Josh Wolff
Chicago Lawyer
September 17, 2009

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.

Faculty: 
Randall D. Schmidt
Faculty: 
Craig B. Futterman

Mandel Legal Aid Clinic 50th Anniversary Symposium

Date: 
02.23.2008

The Arthur Kane Center for Clinical Legal Education
at The University of Chicago Law School
presents:

Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
"Out of the Shadow: Clinical Legal Education"

Saturday, February 23, 2008
8:30am - 3:30pm
Weymouth Kirkland Auditorium
University of Chicago Law School

Faculty: 
Emily Buss
Faculty: 
Randal C. Picker
Faculty: 
Randolph N. Stone

Randolph N. Stone

Clinical Professor of Law

Randolph Stone directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice Project of the Clinic offering law and social work students the supervised opportunity to provide quality representation to children and adults.

Alison Siegler

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Alison Siegler is the founder and director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, the nation’s only legal clinic solely devoted to representing indigent defendants charged with federal felonies. She also teaches Federal Criminal Procedure and Federal Sentencing. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A.

Randall D. Schmidt

Clinical Professor of Law

Randall Schmidt received his BA in 1976 from the University of Illinois  and his JD from the Law School in 1979. Following law school, Mr. Schmidt practiced law with the Chicago law firm of Aaron, Schimberg, Hess, Rusnak, Deutsch and Gilbert. At that firm, he practiced in the area of commercial litigation.  

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