Reunification
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Clinic News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Third-year Penn State Law student Penelope Scudder had a rare opportunity on April 5 when she argued a case against the U.S. Department of Justice before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, garnering praise from the judges and opposing counsel for her performance and preparation in the case.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Students in the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law made two presentations this month to educate State College residents and Penn State students on United States v. Texas and how the case will impact local communities.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law, is speaking on her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases at Cornell University on Wednesday, April 6.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law students assisted area attorneys at the annual Wills for Heroes event in Innovation Park in the law offices of Penn State Law’s clinical programs on March 19. The event was co-sponsored by the Centre County Bar Association and Penn State Law’s Public Interest Law Fund and Veterans and Servicemembers’ Legal Clinic. Nineteen students helped to connect first responders and veterans with attorneys who provided free estate planning documents.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Global Connections, a community-based nonprofit organization affiliated with Penn State and the United Way of Centre County, has selected Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia as the Penn State faculty recipient of this year’s Spirit of Internationalization Award.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Published by West Academic for use in law school classrooms, Entertainment Law on a Global Stage, co-authored by Penn State Law professor Geoffrey R. Scott, offers law students a comprehensive look at entertainment law, including a variety of subjects not found in other texts.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will be in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24 for a panel discussion on her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases and the pending United States V. Texas Supreme Court case.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – After being appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to represent a client who is fighting deportation, students in Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic find themselves in the center of a constitutional challenge to part of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that is likely to land in the lap of the Supreme Court.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Two Penn State Law students argued at a preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in January, defending their clients in front of a local magistrate and winning their release from custody. Brian Forgue and Nicole Jensen, participants in Penn State Law’s Indigent Criminal Justice Practicum, went toe-to-toe with assistant district attorneys challenging evidence on a prima facie level.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Clinical Professor Ross Pifer, director of Penn State Law’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, will deliver a webinar on the legal issues associated with induced seismicity—earthquake activity resulting from human or artificial development—and its impact on landowners at 12 p.m. EST on Feb. 17.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. –Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will discuss her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases on Feb. 10 in Atlanta as part of a continuing legal education luncheon sponsored by the Emory Law Journal, the Immigration Law Society, and LexisNexis. The luncheon begins at noon at Emory University School of Law.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is participating in a panel discussion on immigration law this week at the 110th annual meeting of The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in New York City. The discussion, “Is Immigration Law Administrative Law?” is jointly sponsored by the AALS immigration law and administrative law sections and will be held at 10:15 a.m. on Jan. 7.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – As part of the Citizenship and Migration in the Americas Series, an initiative of New York University Press, Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will take part in a panel discussion around her newest book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases, on Jan. 7 at New York Law School in New York City.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa – The Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, in collaboration with the mayor of State College, Elizabeth Goreham, hosted an educational presentation regarding immigration and local enforcement on Nov. 16 at the State College Municipal Building.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law launched its new Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic last spring to train law students to provide legal representation to veterans and current servicemembers in some specialized and complex areas of statutory and regulatory law, and to advocate on behalf of veterans and those serving in the military on policy matters at both the state and federal level.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Immigration and Nationality Law Review has invited Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia to speak at the University of Cincinnati College of Law next week on Texas v. United States and her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases. Her talk is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 10 in UC College of Law room 114.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, in collaboration with State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, will deliver a community presentation next month on “Local Police and Immigration Enforcement.” The event, which will also include a Q&A with State College Chief of Police Thomas King, is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Nov.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Mayor Elizabeth Goreham and the State College Borough Council passed a proclamation declaring freedom from domestic violence is a fundamental human right during Monday’s council meeting.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will sit on a panel on Oct. 8 in Chicago to discuss her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases and the broader topic of prosecutorial discretion in the immigration context.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Professors and students at Penn State Law celebrated Constitution Day on Sept. 17 with events throughout the day. Faculty held an open panel discussion, while students organized an interactive lobby display for anyone in the Lewis Katz Building to explore.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia will deliver two talks on Sept. 28 in Washington, D.C., on her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, leading immigration scholar and author, will be speaking at two Philadelphia law schools on Sept. 10, discussing her book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases. Wadhia will speak at Temple University Beasley School of Law at noon and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law at 5:15 p.m.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Since 2008, Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic has been providing law students with clinical experience in the field of immigration law.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law, is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion on immigration reform on Sept. 18 at a conference at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law students in the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic spent the month of April conducting outreach to the local community.
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