This petition and press release were circulated today by Natalie Bridgeman Fields, one of the Clinic’s board members. We encourage you to sign the petition to President Littlefield here. Please find Natalie’s message below: _______________ Dear all, Accountability Counsel has…
If you follow college football, you are probably aware of the exploits of Bobby Petrino, who was recently named the new head football coach at the University of Louisville. This is actually Petrino’s second run as Louisville’s head coach. Consider…
This is a list of clerkship positions recently added to OSCAR. To see all available clerkship positions, please go to: https://oscar.uscourts.gov/. If students have any questions or need any assistance in applying for a clerkship, please contact Law Career Services.…
This blog post is part of our ongoing guest Blog Series: “Opportunity Knocks.” For a full schedule, please see: http://law.scu.edu/lcs-blog/upcoming-blog-series-opportunity-knocks/ As a law student, you likely have mastered the art of outlining, know how to brief a case quickly, and…
Details: Please join the Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership for a CLE event entitled “Grande’Anse, Haiti: Environmental Potential and Unrest” on Wednesday, January 29th at 6:00 pm in the Alumni Resource Center, U.C. Hastings College of the Law. Though culturally rooted in the…
Freedom Fighters, a documentary that follows a group of Texas exonerees as they form a detective agency to help exonerate other innocent inmates, received a MacArthur Foundation grant yesterday. The $150,000 grant for Freedom Fighters will enable director Jamie Meltzer…
This blog post is part of our ongoing guest Blog Series: “Opportunity Knocks.” For a full schedule, please see: http://law.scu.edu/lcs-blog/upcoming-blog-series-opportunity-knocks/ Why wouldn’t every law student apply for a judicial externship? This is the question I often asked myself after working for…
Determining the moral course of action has proven to be an admittedly difficult task in countless situations. It’s rare that we actually achieve consensus. This, in part, keeps philosophers in business. And it gets better (or, is it worse?) as…
Daniel Villegas, 37, of El Paso, Texas was exonerated Tuesday after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a double homicide that he did not commit. In 1995, Villegas, then only 16 years old, was wrongfully convicted of the murders…
The latest round of voting for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF) was announced recently, and the results once again prompted a great deal of opposing opinions by fans and members of the voting panel alike. Actually, for…