Brandy Drinnon
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Legislative Advocacy to Eliminate Youth Fines and Fees
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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Collaboration and Community: Vanderbilt Law Clinics and the Elmahaba Center
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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Lessons Learned in Trial Preparation, Joshua Stanton, Clinical Teaching Fellow
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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The Horrors of the Asylum Process, Marina Yousef ’23
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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Helping Immigrants Achieve Their Goals, Alvaro Manrique Barrenechea, LLM’19
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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Clinics Help You Hit the Ground Running, Allen Shao King ’21
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreMay. 2, 2022
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On the Cover: Michael Vandenbergh discusses how private action can force corporations into greener practices
"Planet Earth's Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business," Time, April 14, 2022 Read MoreApr. 14, 2022
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🇺🇸 Honoring Our Veterans 🇺🇸
As much as they come to gain a legal education at VLS, our community is fortunate to gain so richly from our veterans' perspectives, experiences, ideas and character. Read MoreNov. 11, 2021
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Celebrating Our First-Generation Students – Past and Present
This past year, the Youth Opportunity Clinic has participated in researching, drafting and advocating for legislation to eliminate youth fees and fines. This legislative advocacy effort grew from students’ clinic work helping young adult clients navigate the collateral consequences related to fees and fines that stem from delinquency or criminal… Read MoreNov. 8, 2021
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Dean Chris Guthrie joins with deans of more than 40 U.S. law schools in support of AG Garland’s call to the legal community
Law deans express a commitment to ensuring that families and individuals facing eviction have access to legal representation, counseling and assistance. Read MoreSep. 1, 2021