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Clinic News
Third-year Penn State Law student Jill Menning argued and won a court ruling on a writ of habeas corpus petition. Menning was defending a client as part of her work in Penn State Law’s Indigent Criminal Justice Practicum.
More on Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases, by Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A new book by Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the first of its kind to comprehensively examine the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law has launched a new legal clinic designed to provide hands-on practice experience for law students as they represent veterans and current servicemembers in the unique legal issues they encounter.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – This semester, Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants' Rights has been working with the State College Mayor’s Office to educate the community on President Barack Obama's executive action programs on immigration.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic recently filed anamicus curiae brief on behalf of the National Urban League and the NAACP with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit arguing in favor of the employees in the matter of Lopez, et al. v. City of Lawrence, et al.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Beginning this fall, Penn State Law will offer a new Entrepreneurship Program complete with coursework and experiential learning designed to provide law students with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to provide legal assistance to entrepreneurs at every stage of the entrepreneurial process.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law, will deliver the keynote address at the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center’s (PIRC) Light of Liberty Award Reception on March 18 in York, Pa.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – More than 100 immigration law scholars and professors have signed on to a letter released today that calls a federal judge’s decision to temporarily halt President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration “deeply flawed.”
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will deliver the keynote address at the 19th Annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of North Carolina School of Law on Feb. 28 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will deliver a talk on the use of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law on Jan. 30 at the American University Law Review’s symposium taking place at the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Mayer Brown.
Third-year Penn State Law student Alaina Dickens, argued her first jury trial this week, defending her client, charged with driving under the influence and simple assault, in the Centre County, Pa., Courthouse. The unique opportunity is part of her experience as a member of Penn State Law’s Indigent Criminal Justice Practicum.
Preparation for the case began in September, when the defendant first came to the Public Defender’s Office, and Dickens worked on his case from the initial interview.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights held a community outreach event on Dec. 11 summarizing President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, which expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and created the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program. The event was co-sponsored by the Law Office of Sharon Barney.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Penn State Law professor, along with students from the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic will begin a series of educational group rights presentations at the Clinton County Correctional Facility in McElhattan, Pa., for non-citizens who are currently in immigration custody.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- After months of closed-door meetings with business leaders, policy experts, and interest groups, President Obama has announced executive actions aimed at protecting qualifying individuals from deportation through a longstanding tool called prosecutorial discretion.
On June 12, 2014, agents from Homeland Security Investigation (HSI*) and other law enforcement agencies conducted an immigration raid of several Asian restaurants in State College, Pa. Subsequently, more than a dozen people were apprehended and detained.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic recently filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter of Mach Mining, LLC v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, No. 13-1019.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Casey McClain, adjunct professor at Penn State Law, was presented with the inaugural John R. Miller, Jr. Civility Award last week. The honor, to be presented annually, is awarded by the judges of the Centre County Court of Common Pleas.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Students in Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic visited the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 8 to meet with Justice Elena Kagan and listen to oral arguments in two cases.
Public Defender’s Office, Centre County Courthouse, Bellefonte, Pa. – Wednesday, Oct. 1, 9:00 a.m.
Professor Michael Foreman, director of Penn State Law's Civil Rights Appellate Clinic and clinical professor, testified yesterday before the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, at a hearing on three bills addressing employment discrimination:
Michael Foreman, clinical professor of law and director of the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at Penn State Law, has been invited to testify before the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, at a hearing on three bills addressing employment discrimination. The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 10 a.m.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A letter on the use of prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of immigration law signed by 136 immigration law experts and co-written by a Penn State Law professor was delivered to the White House today.
U.S. law professors from 32 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico signed on to the letter, co-authored by ShobaSivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law.
Director of the Penn State Family Law Clinic Jill Engle is traveling to Ireland to speak at a symposium that is part of the events taking place alongside the Penn State vs. Central Florida football game in Dublin’s Croke Park.
With immigration reform prominent in news and politics, Penn State Law Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and clinical law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will discuss executive power in immigration law as part of a panel at the ninth annual Homeland Security Law Institute on August 22 in Washington, D.C. Her talk will focus on separation of powers concerns and procedural obligations under administrative law.
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