Legal Clinic News
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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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Spring Miller, Karla McKanders and Scott Jeffrey JD/PhD ’23 featured in Tennessee Voices podcast
Miller, McKanders and Jeffrey discuss their public interest legal work with David Plazas, director of opinion and engagement for USAToday Network Tennessee, in this 20-minute podcast. Miller is the Assistant Dean and Martha Craig Daughtrey Director of Public Interest, McKanders directs the Immigration Practice Clinic, and Jeffrey will earn his J.D. and Ph.D. in law and economics in 2023. Read MoreDec. 10, 2021
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Housing Law Clinic director Jennifer Prusak addresses importance of legal representation for renters facing eviction
In a column published online at The Conversation, Prusak explains why providing more tenants facing evication with access to a lawyer could be the key to keeping more people in their homes. Prusak is an associate clinical professor of law. She launched Vanderbilt's Housing Law Clinic in spring 2021. Read MoreSep. 29, 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
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Samantha Furman ’21 – Reflection: The Criminal Practice Clinic and Police Brutality
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. 24, 2021