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12.05.2022

Complex Litigation Center Continues Its Work

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.

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12.05.2022

Civil Litigation Clinic Renames to Tenant Advocacy Clinic

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

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12.05.2022

Environmental Advocacy Center Selects New Director

Before Professor’s Loeb’s well-earned ride into the sunset – or sail into the fjords, as it were – she helped select her successor, Clinical Associate Professor of Law Rob Weinstock.

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12.05.2022

Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic Provided Legal Support Throughout Year

Over the past year, the CJCRC has provided legal support to anti-violence organizers, secured justice for wrongfully-targeted Chicagoan Darren Cole, challenged CPD’s gender-based violence, and ...

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12.05.2022

Appellate Advocacy Center Continues Initiatives to Impact Students

The Appellate Advocacy Center is one of the premier appellate organizations in the country, with its faculty and students working on cutting edge cases, playing host to high profile events, and ...

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12.05.2022

Future of Innovation, Sustainability, and the Law Speaker Series

Created by the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center (DPELC) in Fall 2021, the Speaker Series features experts working at the intersection of sustainability and the law, with a focus on the ...

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12.05.2022

The Center on Wrongful Convictions Celebrates the Release of Several Clients

This year, the CWC faculty and students celebrate the freedom and exoneration of clients Juan Hernandez and Jose Cruz, who combined spent over 55 years wrongfully imprisoned after being framed by ...

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12.05.2022

Children and Family Justice Center Wins Freedom For Client

CFJC lawyers and students address unjust incarceration and punishment through postconviction challenges of the extreme sentencing of youth and young people that fail to account for their youth ...

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11.30.2022

Bluhm Legal Clinic Continues its “Lawyering and Race in the 21st Century” Series: 2022 Round Up

Throughout the year, the Bluhm Legal Clinic highlighted many issues around the series’ theme including, the Illinois Blueprint for Peace, Restorative Justice, and Illinois Resentencing Statues.

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