Martha Laura Garcia (3L)
received the
National
Lawyers Guild Haywood
Burns Memorial Fellowship,
established to allow
students to find creative
ways to use the law to
advance justice. She worked
with the Immigrants and
Workers’ Rights Practice Group
advocating for seasonal
migrant farm workers’ rights
in the state of Illinois.
Jordan Hall (2L)
received
a scholarship from the
Diversity Scholarship
Foundation,
awarded to
Illinois law students who
have demonstrated
dedication to diversity in
the legal profession.
Victoria Dempsey (JD ’16
)
was awarded the
Illinois
State Bar Association’s
Postgraduate Legal
Fellowship.
She will serve her
fellowship working in Loyola’s
Community Law Center Clinic.
Heidi Cerneka (JD ’16)
completed her
Schweitzer
Fellowship,
during which
she examined the social
and legal realities of women
imprisoned in downstate
Illinois and Cook County.
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Addressing
inmates’ mental
health issues
The spring 2016 Access to Health Care class delved
into the topic of incarcerated patients with mental
health issues. To learn more about alternative
sentencing approaches, students visited the Cook
County Jail and participated in a five-day field study
at Los Angeles’s Twin Towers, the country’s largest
mental health center within a detention center.
Life After Innocence (LAI) welcomed
Kimberly Mills
(LLM ’15)
as assistant director. “Kim brings passion,
experience, and a deep commitment to the practice of
public interest law,” says Laura Caldwell, LAI director.
40
recent law graduates
benefited this year from
Loyola’s Loan Repayment
Assistance Program,
which
provides support to graduates
with educational debt
burdens who pursue public
interest careers.
Student
fellowships
100 clients represented
Under the supervision of Professors Bruce Boyer and
Stacey Platt and Clinical Fellow Hasti Barahmand, students
enrolled in the
Civitas ChildLaw Clinic represented more
than 100 clients
in child protection, domestic relations,
international child abduction, and education-related
proceedings this past year.
67
students from the Class
of 2016 were recognized
for their
leadership
in public interest
and graduated with
this distinction in May.
Advocating
for exonerees
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