Social Justice

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic (CJCR) and community organization GoodKids MadCity (GKMC) hosted a youth-led town hall with Chicago mayoral ...

The Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center (DPELC) continued its “Future of Innovation, Sustainability and the Law Speaker Series” in February. Ilana Braverman, co-founder and COO of Greener ...

Northwestern University and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law hosted its annual DREAM Week, commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Held on both the Evanston and Chicago ...

Shelisa Thomas (JD ’19) met Corzell J. Cole, Sr. in the winter of 2018. At the time, Thomas was a 3L, and Cole was serving a 50-year sentence for first-degree and attempted murder. Their meeting ...

The Clinic is pleased to share that two of our faculty members are currently leading the two national organizations for law school clinical and experiential faculty.

In 2022, the Northwestern Access to Health Project partnered with a range of community-based organizations around the world on issues related to human rights, global health, and development, ...

The Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) awarded its seventh Global Jurist of the Year Award to all women judges in Afghanistan, in recognition of the courage they have shown under ...

The Center worked on several high-profile cases this year, including the Block One Crypto Currency Fraud case, helped get the Investor Justice Act introduced in the U.S. Senate, and much more.

The Civil Litigation Clinic has been renamed the Tenant Advocacy Clinic, but the work of the Clinic has not changed much.