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L O Y O L A U N I V E R S I T Y C H I C A G O S C H O O L O F L A W
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Loyola’s Jesuit mission calls
students and faculty to put
their knowledge and talents
to the service of others. At
the School of Law, myriad
2014-15 public-interest
activities let the law school
community live out its
commitment to social justice
and society’s less privileged.
Taking
action
Exemplary academic attorney
Mary Bird (JD ’87), director of the law school’s public interest programs,
pictured above with Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) Awards Luncheon
Cochair Brian Duwe, received the CBF’s
2015 Leonard Jay Schrager Award
of Excellence
for significant and lasting contributions to improving access to
justice for the less fortunate.
Racial bias
and law
enforcement
The
2015 Race and
the Law Symposium
explored the
role racial
bias may play in law
enforcement actions.
Black Law Students
Association President
Michael Montgomery,
left, provided remarks.
Keeping kids
in school
Stand Up for Each Other!
was
launched last fall by
Loyola’s
Civitas ChildLaw Clinic
and the
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law to reduce
the use of out-of-school suspensions.
This capstone project allows law
students to use their legal knowledge
and skills to solve a legal or social
problem or provide legal assistance
to nonprofit, government, or
professional organizations.
Compensation
for the wrongly
convicted
Loyola’s Life After Innocence
(LAI) law students
Dagny
Broome,
left, and
Ashley
Stead,
right, recently helped
draft amendments requesting
more compensation and
credits for higher education for
Illinois exonerees.
Professor
Laura Caldwell (JD ’92)
and
James Kluppelberg,
center,
an exoneree and LAI client,
testified before the Criminal Law
Committee of the Illinois Senate.
The committee has now passed
both amendments.
New center for
criminal justice
Loyola’s new
Center for Criminal
Justice Research, Policy and
Practice
will promote
fair, effec-
tive, and ethical approaches
to criminal justice policy and
practice
through collaborative in-
terdisciplinary research, enhanced
professional leadership develop-
ment, and targeted projects aimed
at improving Illinois criminal and
juvenile justice systems.
was raised at the
2015 Public Interest
Law Society auction
to support
summer stipends for law student
working in public interest jobs.
$
23,000
