Consumer Protection Pro Bono Project Training with Tzedeck DC
Tzedek DC is an independent public interest center with a mission is to safeguard the rights of low-income D.C. residents dealing with often unjust, abusive, and illegal debt collection practices, as well as other consumer protection problems like credit reporting issues, identity theft, scams and predatory lending. Because these justice violations are disproportionately concentrated in communities of color, debt-related abuses are a major civil rights issue as well. Tzedek DC seeks to increase financial stability and increase access to the civil justice system. Tzedek DC does so through our three interlocking strategies of: (i) direct legal services; (ii) community outreach and education; and (iii) legislative advocacy. Students who volunteer with Tzedek may be asked to conduct intake, work with clients to write personal declaration, conduct and analyze legal research, write letters to clients, synthesize studies, work on client or organization testimony for legislative hearings, and help create community legal education materials. RSVP for the training on MYWCL.(Law students must attend the training before participating in the pro bono project).
- Training
- Open To Students
SJD Candidate Hashem Alsharif's Dissertation Defense
The Program on Law and Government is pleased to announce that the first SJD defense of the semester will take place on Thursday, January 17th at 1pm in N101. Hashem Alsharif, will be defending his dissertation entitled, "Alternative Punishments to Incarceration in the Sharia Criminal Law: The Applicability of Those Alternatives in the Saudi Arabian Criminal Law."
- Presentation
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
The 20th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Commemoration Program
Welcoming Remarks: Dean Camille Nelson
Keynote Speaker: Janene Jackson, Esq. '99, Partner at Holland & Knight
Community Reading from Dr. King's Nobel Peace Prize Speech
- Lecture
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Office of Academic Excellence: Walk-by Wednesdays
Stop by the Office of Academic Excellence table in the Commons any Wednesday to ask questions you may have about the bar, academic skills or your schedule/classes.
- Information Session
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Women's Economic Development & Law: The World Bank Group's Women, Business and the Law Report Launch 2018
Join WCL alumni and members of the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law Project as they discuss the findings in their latest report measuring gender differences in legal treatment.
- Lecture
- Open To Students