Over the weekend, 500 justice advocates gathered in Portland, Oregon for the annual Innocence Network conference. Approximately 116 were exonerees who spent 1749 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, and the others included attorneys and other staff who…
This is a list of clerkship positions recently added to OSCAR. To see other recently added clerkships, follow the “Judicial Clerkship” tag to see other posts. To see all available clerkship positions, please go to: https://oscar.uscourts.gov/. If students have any…
The International Human Rights Clinic is off to a great Spring Semester. Twelve students are working on several cases and projects that involve environmental justice, children with disabilities, violence against women, human trafficking, local implementation of U.S. human rights treaty…
Wrongfully convicted prisoners seeking exoneration could be given improved access to DNA testing through the passage of Senate Bill 980. Introduced by California State Senator Ted Lieu, the bill would provide greater access to available evidence for people requesting DNA…
WHO: Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-2010) and one of the five authors of a United Nations report on the detention of captives at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay. WHAT: A discussion of…
In most walks of life, it’s easy to explain why an immoral action is immoral. You catch someone stealing your purse and you might say, “You should not do that. I have a right to my property, it’s against the…
We saw it time and again this past NFL season. A bang-bang play, a coach’s challenge to the resulting call by the officials, and a seemingly endless delay before a judgment was finally rendered. And we saw it recently at…
Leading participants, experts, and scholars of criminal justice in the United States met last weekend during a two-day conference organized by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The Quattrone Center’s…
Some law students spend their spring break relaxing on the beach, while others spend their spring break defending human rights, on the beach. Over spring break, IHRC students Giovanni Avelar, Ryan Keever, Natalie Kirkish, Gloria Lee, Christian Mora-Castrellon, and Noemi…
Over Spring Break in early March 2014, IHRC students Zachary Rotstein, Tess Mullin, and Alexandra Logue travelled to San Juan, Puerto Rico with IHRC Director Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi and supervising attorney Britton Schwartz to investigate the state of special…