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Access to Justice Institute (Seattle, WA)
ATJI aims to build a community for law students who share a commitment to serving marginalized or underrepresented individuals, communities and causes. ATJI serves as the bridge between academics and action, encouraging students to be leaders for justice.
Access to Justice Institute – Immigrant Detainee Justice Project (Seattle, WA)
The Immigrant Detainee Justice Project is a partnership between the Access to Justice Institute (ATJI) at Seattle University School of Law, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in Tacoma, and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University (NYU) School of Law. NWIRP is one of the largest legal services organizations in the country committed to promoting justice for low-income immigrants.
Camden Center for Law and Social Justice (Camden, NJ)
The Camden Center for Law and Social Justice (CCLSJ) is a privately-funded, non-profit, public-interest law firm dedicated to serving the civil law needs of the working poor. Founded in 1994, CCLSJ concentrates its practice in immigration law, employment and civil rights law, and family and juvenile law.
Center for Global Justice (Seattle, WA)
The Center for Global Justice fosters multidisciplinary research, education, and advocacy about critical international legal issues, including human rights, dispute resolution, governance, development, security, and the environment. Through colloquiums, conferences, and publications, the Center actively engages with doctrinal and policy dimensions of key questions that confront international legal regimes.
Domestic Violence Outreach Project (Chestnut Hill, MA)
The Domestic Violence Outreach Project is a part of Boston College's Gender Violence Awareness Coalition's larger mission to facilitate access for students to local domestic violence and rape centers, legal services providers, and shelters. An important component or complement to a legal education is serving the public through legal and non-legal volunteering, clinics, and legal services summer employment.
Feerick Center for Social Justice and Dispute Resolution (Bronx, NY)
The Feerick Center brings together the major stakeholders responsible for solving our most difficult urban social issues. Uniquely combining the insights of a think tank, the urgency inherent in a mission to achieve social justice, the balance required of a meditation center, and the educational mission of a law school, the Center will work with all parties to frame concrete and achievable solutions to the endemic problems plaguing the urban poor. The Center also has a "senior lawyer program" designed to help retiring lawyers transition to pro-bono work.
Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic (San Francisco , CA)
The innovative Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic focuses on critical human rights issues, including migrants' rights, application of the death penalty to juveniles, and trafficking of women. Students also work on briefs detailing international law standards to U.S. courts and represent individual clients before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Seattle, WA)
The Center’s mission is to advance justice and equality through a unified vision that combines research, advocacy, and education. Its research work is focused on understanding the relationship between law and categories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability, especially with regard to their intersections. Its advocacy work seeks to combat discrimination and to support communities in advocating for themselves. Its education efforts are focused on helping students become agents for social change, seeking to diversify the legal academy, and training the next generation of scholar/teacher/activists through post-graduate teaching and advocacy fellowships.
Immigrant Rights and Access to Justice, Fordham University Law School (New York , NY)
This clinic represents immigrants securing or maintaining lawful immigrant status in the United States. Most cases are before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agency, the U.S. Immigration Court, or federal court. Students conduct interviews, counsel clients, prepare evidence, draft legal documents, and represent clients in court hearings and agency interviews.
Immigration and Asylum Externship Program (Newton Centre , MA)
The Immigration and Asylum Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to develop their immigration lawyering skills and exposes them to the realities of immigration practice. Participants work either off campus at a firm or non-profit, or on campus with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.
Immigration Law Clinic (Detroit, MI)
UDM School of Law established the Immigration Law Clinic to serve indigent clients who seek protection from extreme political, religious, ethnic and physical persecution in their home countries. In Detroit they get a fresh start with the help of UDM School of Law students who act as lead counsel under the supervision of faculty. Students work one-on-one with clients to prepare their applications for asylum, and advocate on their behalf before the U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit. Since the inception of the Immigration Law Clinic, UDM School of Law students have successfully represented clients from the Congo, Uganda, Ukraine, China, Ethiopia, Albania, and other countries.
Immigration Law Clinic, Seattle University Law School (Seattle, WA)
Students enrolled in the Immigration Clinic will provide legal representation to clients in immigration proceedings. Students will get involved at various stages of these proceedings, which may include proceedings before Immigration Officers, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals or Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Immigration Law Group (Newton, MA)
This student organization is appointed by the elected student government of the law school. They focus on researching immigration law.
Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) (Washington DC, DC)
ISIM focuses on all aspects of international migration, including the causes of and potential responses to population movements, immigration and refugee law and policy, comparative migration studies, the integration of immigrants into their host societies, and the effects of international migration on social, economic, demographic, foreign policy and national security concerns. ISIM also studies internal displacement, with particular attention to the forced movements of people for reasons that would make them refugees if they crossed an international border.
Jesuit Urban Service Team (Camden, NJ)
The Jesuit Urban Service Team provides educational, medical, legal and social services to the working poor and underserved families living in Camden and South Jersey. These ministries include Holy Name School and the High School Scholars Program, St. Luke’s Catholic Medical Services, the Camden Center For Law and Social Justice and Guadalupe Family Services.
Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project (Newton, MA)
The JRAP represents youth (with a focus on girls) who are in the delinquency system, comprehensively across systems, and until they reach majority. JRAP representation uses the legal system to access social and community services and hold systems accountable, reducing the use of incarceration and supporting girls in their communities. In addition to individual representation, the JRAP is involved in ongoing research and policy advocacy aimed at reducing incarceration and supporting youth in their communities
Legal Assistance Bureau (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau (BCLAB) is a community legal services office founded by Boston College law students in 1968 and funded by Boston College Law School and through grants from Greater Boston Legal Services and Springwell Corporation.
We advise and represent clients with a variety of legal problems, including primarily domestic violence prevention, family law, landlord-tenant disputes, Social Security disability appeals. Pursuant to the Massachusetts student practice rule (SJC 3:03), students supervised by a faculty of supervising attorneys and a clinical social worker are certified to represent clients in every aspect of litigation, including appearing in court and at federal and state administrative hearings.
