Penn State Law in University Park Civil Rights Appellate Clinic students are thrilled to have reached an agreement with the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) to allow Ms. Jane Doe to sit for the LSAT exam with accommodations.
For the second year in a row, the Penn State Law in University Park Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (CIRC) spent close to a week serving as advocates for families at the Berks County Residential Center (Berks) in Leesport, Pennsylvania, working in partnership with ALDEA, The People’s Justice Center.
The Penn State Law Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic recently won two appeals for a Vietnam veteran, and continue to make community impacts. Members of the Clinic will be on hand on Nov. 16 at the Military Appreciation Game Tailgate before the Nittany Lions take on the Hoosiers of Indiana. Prior to the game, Professor Vollmer will be a featured speaker at the Huddle with the Faculty series at 9 a.m. at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Just five weeks into the fall semester, a team with Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic co-authored and filed a brief in a case that is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Amber Morris, a third-year student at Penn State Law in University Park, will be published in the summer 2020 edition of the Montana Law Review, with a paper she completed through the independent study program at Penn State Law.
The Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic has released a report on behalf of its client, the Pennsylvania Immigrant Family Unity Project, that looks at the issue of detained immigrants’ ability to access counsel in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
On September 12, 2019, Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic student Jennifer Bruce presented oral arguments in front of a Third Circuit panel as a member of the litigation team for the plaintiff in Doe v. LSAC.