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2011 - 2012:
UT Press Releases:
- Graduating Law students receive service awards
- Michael O'Keefe Cowles, '12, awarded UT Law post-graduate fellowship to pursue low-wage worker rights project in the Dallas-Fort Worth region
- Panel Discussion on State Anti-Immigrant Laws, February 13, 2012
- World Bank Chief Counsel Charles E. Di Leva to speak on international environmental law, sustainable development, and climate change, February 6, 2012
- National Student Loan Expert Heather Jarvis to speak at Public Service Career Fair, January 27, 2012
- 56 students devote final week of winter break to pro bono work
- Law School conference to address developments in civil rights litigation since 9/11, February 3, 2012
- The Law School and Robert Brothers, ’11, honored by awards from Texas Access to Justice Commission
- Karen Lash, senior counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, to speak on federal efforts to increase access to justice, November 7, 2011
- National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Spotlight on the 2011–2012 Pro Bono Scholars
- National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Spotlight on Brandi Weaver, ‘05
- National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Spotlight on Professor Jordan Steiker
- National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Pro Bono Program to host exclusive screening of Crime after Crime, October 27, 2011
- Pro Bono Program announces 2012 Pro Bono in January trip
- Three Students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
- Justice Center sponsors conference to explore best practices for connecting affordable homes and public transit in the Austin area, October 21, 2011
- William Wayne Justice Center to join the LBJ School of Public Affairs on contract for deed study in Texas colonias
- Pro Bono Program and Justice Center to host White House “Champions of Change” watch party
- Six students named Public Service Scholars with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law
- Law School’s Class of 2014 Equal Justice Scholarship awarded to Cassandra McCrae
2010 - 2011:
UT Press Releases:
- Six Law School students receive Justice Center Graduating Student Awards
- Justice Center announces 2011 Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Third-year law student awarded Julius Glickman Fellowship to pursue worker rights project
- Law School to host book talk on Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
- Jonathan Rapping, founder and CEO of the Southern Public Defender Training Center, to speak on reforming indigent defense
- UT Law Pro Bono Program Sends Thirty-Three Law Students to the Rio Grande Valley
- UT Law’s highest honor society installs 2011 Chancellors
- Meredith Shytles, ’11, wins Skadden Fellowship
- Law School to Host Talk by Texas Tough Author Robert Perkinson on Imprisonment and Race
- Pamela Brown, Director of the Bi-National Family Violence Project, to Speak on Pursuing Justice across International Borders
- Law School to Mark National Pro Bono Celebration with Book Talk and Movie Screening
- Three UT Law Students Receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
- Five Students Named Public Service Scholars with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law
- Fair housing conference to address recent legal developments
- UT Law Student Receives Inaugural Scott Ozmun Fellowship
- Sixth Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Erin Gaines
Press:
- DasGupta, Shamoyita. "Trio discusses faults in justice system." The Daily Texan (February 23, 2011).
- Crouter, Mary. "Transforming the Texas prison system." UT Know (November 22, 2010).
- Bill and Stephanie Whitehurst fund summer fellowships
- Six Law School students named University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
- Judge William Wayne Justice’s papers donated to the Tarlton Law Library
- Kathryn S. Fuller, '76, chair of the Ford Foundation and former president of the World Wildlife Fund, is the inaugural G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, March 8–10, 2010
- Two UT Law students awarded Justice Corps Fellowships to pursue public-interest legal projects
- Access to Justice Scholarship awarded to Adriana Rodriguez, ’11
- Robin Steinberg, founder and executive director of the Bronx Defenders, to speak on indigent defense and social justice
- Law School students and professors to travel to Houston and the Rio Grande Valley to offer free legal assistance to low-income people
- Freeing the Innocent: Tiffany Dowling and Mike Ware to speak on the successful fight to exonerate Claude Simmons and Christopher Scott, November 19, 2009
- Law in the Public Interest: Through new programs, Law School graduates pursue justice for underrepresented populations
- Lives in the Law: Nina Perales of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund to speak on November 10, 2009
- In Memoriam: The Honorable William Wayne Justice, 1920 - 2009
- Five students named Public Service Scholars with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at UT Law
- Four UT Law students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
- UT Law’s Texas Law Veterans Association cosponsors free legal clinic for veterans
- The Least of These, a documentary on the Immigration Clinic’s work at the T. Don Hutto detention center, to screen at UT Law September 17, 2009
- UT Law's Fifth Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Jordan Pollock
- Rozen, Miriam. "UT law students' winter break includes pro bono work." Texas Lawyer 22 December 2009.
- A Force For Justice: The Justice Corps Fellows Program Fosters a New Generation of Public Interest Lawyers
- Help on The Homefront: Law Students Organize Legal Clinics for Central Texas Veterans
- UT Law's Jessica Cassidy, '09, awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship to practice public-interest law in Austin
- Justice Center announces George M. Fleming Public Interest Summer Fellowship
- Graduating law students receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
- Justice Center Announces University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Three UT Law students awarded Justice Corps Fellowships to pursue public interest legal projects
- Justice Center announces Frank Douglass Public Interest Summer Fellowships
- Access to Justice Scholarship awarded to Jessica Kemp, ’10
- Parisa Fatehi, ’07, awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship to practice public-interest law
- UT Law hosts Color of Justice program for local minority high school students
- UT Law Launches the Justice Corps
- Lisa Snead, '09, awarded Skadden Fellowship
- Jessica Cassidy receives the first Law Student Pro Bono Award from the Texas Access to Justice Commission
- 'Horns for Heroes—Texas Law Veterans Association to Sponsor Free Legal Clinic
- Stephen Singer, public defender in New Orleans, to speak on Hurricane Katrina's impact on the criminal justice system and his life in the law, November 3, 2008
- Five students named Public Service Scholars with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at UT Law
- Six UT Law students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
- UT Law's Fourth Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to William Lawson Konvalinka, '11
- Justice. For All. UT Law Post-Graduate Faculty Fellowship
- Graduating Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
- Justice Center Selects University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Aaron Johnson Awarded Faculty Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law
- Former Judge Justice Clerks to Speak on their Lives in the Law
- Conference Celebrates UT Law Domestic Violence Clinic's 10th Anniversary
- UT Law Hosts Color of Justice Program for Local Minority High School Students
- Law Students Volunteer to Assist Devastated Gulf Coast Communities
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship Class of 2008
- Law Students to Assist Devastated Gulf Coast Communities
- Capital Punishment Center to Host Review of Landmark Death Penalty Cases, November 2–3
- Tracie Washington to Speak on Legal Needs in Louisiana's Gulf Coast Region, November 5
- Five Students Named Public Service Scholars
- Six UT Law Students Receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
- First-Year Law Students Volunteer for Public Service Projects
- UT Law’s Third Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Kyle Marie Stock, '10
- Wheelock, Monica. " UT Law Students Clean Up Shoal Creek Parks." Daily Texan 10 September 2007.
- Collaborative Internship Sends More Law Students to Communities Needing Assistance
- Selina Llaguno and Elizabeth Wagoner Receive UT Law Faculty Fellowships
- Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
- Justice Center Selects University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Civil Rights Legend Morris Dees to Discuss Litigating Against Hate Groups, March 1
- UT Law Awards Equal Justice Scholarship to Amber VanSchuyver, ’08
- UT Law Presents Symposium on Legal Representation in Capital Cases, Feb. 8
- UT Law's Justice Center to Co-Sponsor Civil Rights Education Event
- Justice Center Co-Sponsors Pro Bono Project for Women Fighting Breast Cancer
- Justice Bea Ann Smith, '75, Honored for Judicial Career and Public Service
- National Security Expert to Discuss Guantanamo and the Supreme Court, Nov. 2
- UT Law Hosts Gender and Labor Conference, Oct. 19th and 20th, 2006
- William Wayne Justice, '42, Honored with First Morris Dees Award
- Baron & Budd Scholarships Awarded to UT Law Students
- William Wayne Justice Center Names Public Service Scholars '06-'07
- UT Law Awards Equal Justice Scholarship to Jessica Cassidy, '09
- New Collaborative Internship Program Places Law Students in South Texas
- Allen Cooper Receives Second UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law
- Five UT Law Students Selected as University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
- Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
- Justice Center Co-Sponsors Second Civil Rights Litigation Conference
- UT Law's First Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Kathrine Russell, '08
- Five Students Named Public Service Scholars with the Justice Center at UT Law
- Justice Center Honors Judge "Barefoot" Sanders, Elizabeth "Betsy" Julian, and Frederick M. Baron for Public Service
- "Exposed: Bronwyn Blake." Tribeza July 2006: 31.
- Burkett, Lauren O. "Public Service Internship Changes Student." Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Law News June 28, 2006.
- Miller, Robert. "3 Honored for Service, Law Efforts." The Dallas Morning News 5 January 2006.
- Awards. Texas Lawyer Vol. 21, No. 41 (December 2005): 11.
- Travis County Women Lawyers' Association. 2005 Travis County Women's Lawyers Awards: Public Interest — Eden Harrington, http://www.tcwla.org/.
- Five UT Law Students Selected as UT Co-Op Summer Public Interest Fellows
- Graduating Law Students Receive UT Co-Op Public Interest Awards
- Bronwyn Blake Receives First UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law
- Equal Justice Scholarships Created for Future Legal Aid Lawyers
- Phan, Linda, Lippincott, Elizabeth, and Philip, Diana."Women's Advocacy Project Unveils New Legal Initiatives." Legalfront (Summer 2005): 21.
- Robbins, Mary Alice."Public Interest Law Fellowship Focuses on Teenage Victims." Texas Lawyer Vol. 21, No. 9 (May 2, 2005): 4.
- "Law Schools Announce Scholarships for Future Legal Aid Lawyers." Texas Bar Journal 67.10 (November 2004): 892-3.
- Heinrichs, Christine. "Want Free Tuition?". The National Jurist/ PreLaw Magazine October 2004.
- Robbins, Mary Alice. "Public Interest Law Scholarships Will Benefit Legal Aid for Poor." Texas Lawyer Vol. 20, No. 32 (October 2004): 8.
- "Briefing re Equal Justice Scholarships." Austin American Statesman 8 October 2004: Metro & State.
- Robbins, Mary Alice. "Honoring Justice." Texas Lawyer Vol. 20, No. 14 (June 2004): 3.
- "And Justice for All: $1 Million Dollar Endowment Funds Center for Public Interest Law." On Campus 16 June 2004.
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