Social Justice

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In September, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Children & Family Justice Center continued its “Race and Lawyering in the 21st Century” series with a discussion on the Illinois Blueprint for ...

In July, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, in partnership with Feinberg School of Medicine and Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, hosted a ...