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IMMIGRATION CLINIC
Immigration Clinic Jumping Into Action in Light of Trump Administration Changes The immigration clinic learned on
appeal before the Board of Immigration
Friday, October 13th at 2:30 pm that ICE
Appeals (BIA), securing the right of
would not accept the clinic’s request
an indigenous Guatemalan woman
for a stay of removal. With a plane
to apply for asylum. In this case, the
ticket as the only thing keeping ICE
Immigration Judge (IJ) ordered the
from deporting the clinic’s client, the
woman and her two minor children
students filed an emergency habeas
deported when she did not appear at a
petition and motion for stay in the
preliminary hearing. This effectively
United States District Court, Western
prevented her from applying for
District of Washington. In a round the
asylum. A prior attorney had moved to
clock effort, students tagged-teamed
reopen the case, noting that the woman
meeting with the client in detention,
was illiterate and had an asylum claim.
drafting the habeas, the motion, and
However, the IJ denied the motion to
preparing the T visa. After filing the
reopen because he had told her, at an
motion for stay on a Friday night at
earlier hearing, of the next hearing date
10:09 p. m., Judge Marcia Pechman
and time. The clinic students took on
granted the stay, to remain in effect
the appeal, arguing that illiteracy was
while the students brief the issues in
an exceptional circumstance under
the case.
the regulations, and that it would be
The clinic students also won an
error to deny reopening when the client
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Immigration Clinic
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Welcome Message
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Legislative Advocacy Clinic
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Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
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Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic
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New Clinical Fellow
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Innocence Project Northwest
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Technology Law & Policy Clinic
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Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
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Race and Justice Clinic
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Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic
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Retirement
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Federal Tax Clinic
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Judicial Engagement
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New Experiential Course
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Award
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Publications and Presentations
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International Business and Human Rights Clinic
Welcome message from Associate Dean for Experiential Education
presented a prima
While I have the
facie asylum case.
privilege of working
The BIA agreed
with my colleagues
and the client
on a daily basis it is
will now have the
inspiring to put together
opportunity to
a summary of their work
apply for asylum
to share with those outside of our law school
for her and her
community. This newsletter touches on some
children. With
of the highlights of our year but does not
the immigration
include details of the many ways that our
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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CLINIC LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY CLINIC
Students Work Tirelessly on Bill to Improve Reliability of Testimony IPNW Legislative Advocacy Clinic students built upon the efforts of the 2015-16 Clinic by advocating for a bill in the Washington State Legislature to improve the reliability of testimony in criminal proceedings. Senate Bill 5038 would require prosecutors to seek out and disclose particular information about any witness who receives benefits in exchange for testimony against a criminal defendant. False testimony by incentivized witnesses is a major contributor to wrongful convictions in Washington State and nationally. The bill passed the Washington State Senate with a vote of 46-3, and passed the House Judiciary Committee with a vote of 10-3 but stalled on the House Floor as the Legislature went into overtime. Students met regularly with legislative staff, members of House and Senate leadership, collaborated with other stakeholders, testified in committee hearings, and drafted multiple versions of the bill as it moved through the process.
STUDENTS ANTICIPATE THEIR BILL BEING CALLED TO THE FLOOR AS THEY WAIT AT THE WASHINGTON STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Host First Scholar in Residence The Clinical Law Program is fortunate to have Sanne Knudsen, Stimson Bullitt Endowed Professor
the support of The Quiet Coalition and the American Tinnitus Association. Current noise statutes call
of Environmental Law and Associate
upon the government to sponsor
Dean for Faculty Research and
research, educate the public, and
Development, join the Environmental
adopt regulations to control levels of
Law and Policy Clinic for the year
environmental noise. These mandates
as a Scholar in Residence. Professor
have been unfunded and neglected for
Knudsen will teach the clinical course
decades; the Office of Noise Abatement
with ELPC Director, Todd Wildermuth.
and Control was dismantled during the
We are thrilled that our faculty and
Reagan era. As Congress recognized
students will have the benefit of
over four decades ago, noise presents
Professor Knudsen’s expertise in the
a serious public health hazard. In the
field of environmental law.
absence of regulation and enforcement,
Recently, the Environmental Law and
the problem has gotten worse each
Policy Clinic filed a petition with the
year. Filing a petition is the first step
Administrator of the US Environmental
in making sure agencies like the EPA
Protection Agency to fulfill the
implement and enforce our laws as they
mandates of the Noise Control Act of
are required to do. A court may not be
1972 and the Quiet Communities Act of
able to order an agency to do its job if it
1978. The petition was submitted with
has not first been asked.
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CHILDREN AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CLINIC
NEW CLINICAL FELLOW
Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic Chosen to Co-Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Youth Homelessness The University of Washington School
legislative advocacy. CAYAC’s research
New Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic The Children and Youth
of Law, through our Children and
demonstrated that many children
Advocacy Clinic is lucky to have
Youth Advocacy Clinic (CAYAC), has
in Washington state are without
Julia Bedell join us this fall as a
been chosen to co-lead a University
advocacy in child welfare courts and
Clinical Teaching Fellow. Julia
wide participatory research project
that children’s voices are more likely
will be part of a newly funded
alongside our School of Nursing.
to be heard if they are represented by
interdisciplinary project to
Special funding from the state
an attorney in court. Over the course
address youth homelessness in
of Washington to address youth
of the legislative session, students met
the University District of Seattle.
homelessness in
with more than 35
Julia received her J.D. from
our community
state legislators or
Columbia Law School in 2016,
has made
their staff and one
where she was a James Kent
CAYAC student
Scholar and the Notes Editor
testified in front
of the Columbia Journal
of the Washington
of Environmental Law. At
State Senate’s
Columbia, Julia participated in
Human Services,
the Mediation Clinic and was the
Mental Health,
inaugural Research Assistant
and Housing
for all clinical programs. She
Committee. The
has volunteered with DNA
hard work of the
People’s Legal Services on the
students and
Navajo Nation and with the
in participatory
many community
National Lawyers Guild’s Parole
research
partners
Preparation Project, and she
methodology with
culminated with
recently completed a clerkship
this unique interdisciplinary opportunity possible. Students in the clinic will work alongside CAYAC’s new clinical teaching fellow, Julia Bedell, to engage
CAYAC’s research demonstrated that children’s voices are more likely to be heard if they are represented by an attorney in court.
youth experiencing homelessness,
the passage of SB 5890 this summer.
conduct intake interviews with
This bill includes a new, fully funded,
homeless youth, craft policy
pilot program that will appoint
recommendations based on youth
attorneys to children of all ages in two
voice, develop implementation plans
Washington counties and study the
to act on those recommendations,
impact of those attorneys over two
and draft policy reports for public
years. Through this privately funded
distribution.
project, CAYAC students were able to
This project comes after a successful
with the Alaska Court of Appeals.
see the impact of systems advocacy
effort to expand access to legal
in addition to individual client work.
representation to children in the foster
Upon graduation, one CAYAC student
care system. During the 2016-2017
reflected that doing this legislative
academic year the Children and Youth
work was her “favorite memory at UW
Advocacy Clinic built on their research
Law.”
from the previous year to engage in
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INNOCENCE PROJECT NORTHWEST
Innocence Project Northwest Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary In the fall of 1997, Professor Jacqueline McMurtrie founded Innocence Project Northwest (IPNW) as the third independent innocence organization in the United States and it became a clinical offering at the University of Washington School of Law in 2002. With the mission and needs of the organization growing, IPNW is transitioning operations to an independent non-profit that will continue to affiliate with the University of Washington School of Law. Students still enroll in IPNW’s client representation and legislative advocacy clinics, but the non-profit status allows IPNW to engage in
significant supporters at the May 2017 Stand for Innocence Benefit and
EXONERATED AND FREED GUESTS JOIN IPNW AT 2017 STAND FOR INNOCENCE BENEFIT
Awards Dinner, and continued to
IPNW has exonerated 14 Washington men and women who collectively served over 114 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. much needed advocacy and focused fundraising. IPNW’s mission – to free innocent prisoners and work to prevent future wrongful convictions through education and policy reforms – remains as critically important today as it was twenty years ago. IPNW recognized Professor McMurtrie and its many
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celebrate its 20th anniversary with
worked with faculty and staff last
a Rock for Justice Concert featuring
year to secure DNA testing orders and
the Exoneree Band. The event was
investigate new evidence of innocence
held October 2nd to commemorate
on behalf of their clients and learned
International Wrongful Conviction
firsthand that the fight for freedom
Day and brought IPNW’s community
in these cases is long and arduous
supporters, students and alumni
– a lesson exemplified by recent
together with exonerees from around
developments in the case of IPNW’s
the country.
first DNA exoneree, Ted Bradford.
Through the work of dedicated
IPNW began investigating Ted’s case
faculty, staff, students and pro bono
in 2002. But it took another eight years
partners, IPNW has exonerated 14
before he was exonerated. During that
Washington men and women who
time IPNW obtained DNA testing that
collectively served over 114 years in
excluded Ted from the crime scene
prison for crimes they did not commit.
evidence. After his conviction was
Efforts to improve criminal justice in
vacated in light of the new DNA, Ted
Washington and support exonerees
was retried by the State before a jury
has led to important reforms including
acquitted him in 2010. This August,
improved eyewitness identification
he received news that new DNA
procedures, and new laws to preserve
results implicated another man in the
evidence for post-conviction DNA
1995 rape that led to Ted’s wrongful
testing and provide exonerees
conviction, new evidence he hopes will
compensation for their wrongful
solidify his claim for compensation for
convictions. IPNW Clinic students
the decade he spent in prison.
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ENTREPRENEURIAL LAW CLINIC TECHNOLOGY LAW AND POLICY CLINIC
Tech-Law Clinic Students Pass City and State-Wide Legislation Students in the Tech-Law Clinic successfully passed local and state legislation protecting privacy rights. Working with Shankar Narayan of the ACLU of Washington, Tech-Law students composed language, met with stakeholders, and persuaded Seattle City Council persons to pass CB 118930. The legislation received unanimous approval and will increase public awareness and involvement when Seattle considers obtaining new surveillance equipment or software. The new law, sponsored by Councilmember Gonzalez, expands the definition of surveillance equipment. 3L student Chris Stevenson led the Tech-Law effort. On May 16th Governor Jay
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC) Assists CoMotion on Potential Spinouts from the UW The ELC serves low-income
UW Business Plan competition and
entrepreneurs throughout the Pacific
was featured in The Seattle Times. The
Northwest by providing critical
ELC assisted CoMotion on corporate
early-stage legal and business counsel.
and IP issues for EpiForAll. The ELC
Students tackle everything from
also addressed corporate issues for
forming legal business entities and
CoMotion for another of its spinouts,
reviewing contracts to advising clients
LC-Tourniquet, which is developing a
on equity allocation and instructing
limb-cooling device to assist military
them on best corporate practices.
doctors, paramedics and trauma
During the 2016-2017 academic year,
centers with pre-hospital care for
the ELC assisted 26 startup businesses
trauma that blocks blood flow to a
consisting of 11 microenterprises, 7 high
limb. LC-Tourniquet took third place in
technology projects and 8 nonprofits. It
the UW Business Plan competition. In
also helped CoMotion, the innovation
addition, the students also represented
hub of the University of Washington,
clients ranging from an innovator who
with 2 potential UW spinouts, including
developed an educational card game to
EpiForAll.
an entrepreneur who adapted a seam
EpiForAll, which developed an
ripper (traditionally used for clothing)
alternative way to deliver epinephrine,
to remove sewn-in hair weaves to an
won the grand prize at the UW
inventor who developed a pipe to be
Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge,
sold in cannabis stores.
as well as the DLA Piper “Best Idea with a Global Reach” prize. EpiForAll also took fourth place at the annual
EPIFORALL TEAM WINS UW HOLLOMON HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE
Inslee signed House Bill 1493. The Washington law governs the handling of “biometric identifiers” such as voiceprints, retina scans, and other unique biological identifiers. Strong notice requirements, “opt-out” provisions, and limits on the sale of this information are all parts of the bill. Tech-Law students worked with Alex Alben, Washington State’s Chief Privacy Officer in composing language and persuading legislators to vote in favor. The new law takes effect immediately.
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RACE AND JUSTICE CLINIC
Race and Justice Clinic Students Work on the Front and Back End of the Criminal Justice System Youth of color make up more than
were sentenced to die in prison and
75% of the children who are prosecuted
now have a second chance. Recent
as adults in Washington’s criminal
favorable case law in the Washington
justice system. Many of these young
Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
people receive extraordinarily long
has laid the groundwork for more
sentences, and the Tools for Social
individualized sentencing and many
Change: Race and Justice Clinic has
more clients for clinic students to
focused on representing some of these
assist. But the Race and Justice Clinic
individuals who are serving decades for
is not just engaged with clients at the
crimes committed when they were 15
“back end” of the system. In 2016-2017,
to 17 years old. This past year, through
clinic students also obtained favorable
the advocacy of the Race and Justice
outcomes for middle school and high school students who were expelled from school. By representing students at the front end of the “school to prison
The long standing racial and ethnic disparities in our juvenile and adult criminal justice systems require creative and courageous lawyers who understand the various systems that work together to produce negative outcomes.
pipeline,” law students are able to build advocacy skills and begin to formulate ideas for broader systemic change to reduce the over involvement of youth of color in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. In addition to traditional advocacy, clinic students held know your rights workshops for girls in the youth jail, advocated for restorative justice on behalf of a crime survivor and an offender, and gathered data on racial disparities in school discipline and post-conviction matters that will form the basis for future clinic work. The long standing racial and ethnic disparities in our juvenile and adult criminal justice systems require creative and courageous lawyers who understand the various systems that work together to produce negative outcomes. Race and Justice Clinic
Clinic partnering with the community,
students left their year with a greater
clients were granted early release and
understanding of the systems that
the opportunity to be re-sentenced
have not been working for many, but
for offenses they committed when
with skills and tools to continue to
they were children. These individuals
advocate for change.
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TRIBAL COURT PUBLIC DEFENSE CLINIC
Tribal Public Defense Clinic Students Gain Valuable Litigation Experience Tribal Public Defense Clinic students Renee Ambacher and Corinne Brierley successfully negotiated a dismissal for their client just weeks before the scheduled jury trial. As the date approached, Ambacher and Brierley worked with Clinical Professor Brenda Williams to negotiate an offer from the prosecution. “It was the best outcome we could have hoped for,” said Brierley. “I have no doubt we would have won at trial, but to get the charges dismissed without the stress of trial for our client—it was a total victory. ” Clinic students also conducted client interviews and jail visits, drafted substantive motions and jury instructions, and assisted with criminal trials. Four students worked on child welfare litigation in Muckleshoot Tribal Court, drafting briefs, preparing cross examinations, and advocating for clients’ interests. Renee Ambacher said of the experience “The Tribal Clinic not only gave me my first perspective on trial practice and how a courtroom is run. I am so glad to have spent time in the Tribal Clinic, and I never get tired of bragging about being a ‘barred advocate’ [in the Tulalip Tribal Court]!”
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position for program faculty. Clinicians
RETIREMENT
who were hired on one-year grant-
Alan Kirtley Retires—But His Legacy On The Clinical Program Remains
funded contracts were moved to longer term contracts funded by the law school. Following Alan’s example, many clinicians converted to tenuretrack and achieved tenure and full professorships. When a new law school was built, Alan oversaw the move of
few years, he moved out west to start a
the clinical program from a building
all of the tangible and intangible
clinical law program at the University
separate from the law school (which
contributions that Alan Kirtley made to
of Puget Sound (now Seattle University)
was later condemned) to a modern wing
the clinical program at the University
Law School.
of the law school. The integration of the
It is hard to distill in written form
of Washington School of Law (UW
Alan directed UW Law’s Criminal
clinic faculty into the law school has
Law). His hard work and vision are
Law Clinic for five years before
facilitated a regular exchange of ideas
indelibly part of the program and will
securing a federal grant to add a civil
between the clinic faculty and non-
remain so for years to come.
law clinic and shortly afterwards a
clinic faculty members.
When the program was just starting, it was Alan’s vision and determination
mediation clinic to the law school curriculum. The breadth of clinical
Alan built the vibrant UW Law clinical program while also teaching courses in alternative dispute resolution and negotiation, and supervising
ALAN KIRTLEY AT HIS RETIREMENT PARTY
law student mediators in the Mediation Clinic. It is not unusual to run into one of Alan’s former students and hear wonderful stories of their clinical experiences under Alan’s tutelage. Alan’s contributions extend beyond his service to the UW Law clinical program. He trains mediators twice annually in the law school’s Professional Mediation Skills Training CLE and served as Chair of the Washington State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section. Alan
that grew the clinic from a small
offerings for UW Law students
co-founded both the Northwest
program to one that includes twelve
continued to expand under Alan’s
ADR Conference and the Northwest
clinics and a vast externship program.
leadership. As Clinic Director, he
Clinical Teachers Conference. He was
He came to UW Law in 1984 to form
strategically built the program to
an active participant in the AALS
the Criminal Law Clinic with a
respond to the needs of the community,
Section on Clinical Legal Education
federal grant from the Department
diversify the practice experiences
and chaired its Executive Committee.
of Education. However, his foray into
for students, and take advantage of
We are so grateful to Alan for his many
clinical legal education dates back
available funding opportunities.
contributions. His legacy will live on in
to the early 1970’s. Alan left private
Alan was a beloved mentor to a
practice, after becoming a partner in
generation of UW Law clinical faculty.
a law firm, to teach in the University
He was also a dogged and successful
of Michigan Law School clinic. After a
advocate for obtaining security of
the clinical program at UW long after his departure.
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FEDERAL TAX CLINIC
Federal Taxpayer Clinic (FTC) Engage in Community Education and Services The FTC’s eighteen law students
interpreters the FTC assisted taxpayers
engaged in community education and
in securing refunds of $32,262 and
legal services. The FTC conducted
decreasing debt by $1,033,762.
JUDICIAL ENGAGEMENT
Clinical Law Program Hosts Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony
educational and outreach activities
Partnering with the Taxpayer
for University of Washington, Legal
Advocate Service and IRS Counsel,
Law Program held its first annual
Voice, Northwest Immigrant Rights
the Federal Tax Clinic conducts
swearing-in ceremony. Judge
Program, QLaw Foundation, QLaw
Tax Court Clinics, which allow pro
Ronald E. Cox, of the Washington
Board, Seattle University Center
se taxpayers with upcoming Tax
Court of Appeals, provided our
for Professional Development,
Court dates to utilize our services to
clinic students with words of
University of Washington Health Law
negotiate on their behalf with IRS
advice, encouragement, and
Program, Seattle Pro Bono Committee,
counsel. We conduct our negotiations
inspiration about the practice of
Washington State Bar Association,
in-person and over a closed circuit
law and then administered an
Kids in Need of Defense, Latino LGBTQ,
video system, and transfer documents
oath to the students.
Center for Children and Justice and the
via fax transmission. We also try to
law firms Davis Wright, Perkins Coie,
assist taxpayers who need guidance
Washington State Court of
Dorsey Whitney, Lane Powell, and K&L
but either do not qualify for clinic
Appeals since January 1995. He
Gates. The clinic provided information
assistance, or call at a time when we do
is a graduate of the University
about the common issues facing low-
not have the capacity to take them on
of Washington School of Law
income taxpayers.
as a client.
and the United States Military
With the help of volunteer attorneys, two CPAs, 18 law students and 5
On October 5, 2017, the Clinical
Judge Cox has been on the
Academy at West Point. He served as President of the King County Bar Foundation, which raises funds for free legal services to the
JUDGE COX AT CLINICAL LAW PROGRAM SWEARING IN CEREMONY, OCTOBER 2017
poor and scholarship for minority law students. He was actively involved in the educational work of the Washington State Minority and Justice Comission of the state supreme court. The University of Washington School of Law awarded Judge Cox its Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Alumnus Award and King County Washington Women Lawyers awarded him its Judge of the Year Award. He spent time after the swearing-in meeting the students and learning more about their exciting clinic work in the year to come.
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NEW EXPERIENTIAL COURSE
Drama Professor teaches Law Students Persuasive Communication Skills With over 25 years of experience
Judith Shahn became the person to see,
teaching at the UW School of Drama,
achieving dramatic transformations
as well as her own career in the theater,
that revealed the authentic, persuasive
Professor Judith Shahn has a keen
core beneath the stiff lawyer exterior.
appreciation of both the power of
In several UW Law appearances,
words and how speech “lands” on an
Professor Shahn shifted the reality
audience. She also understands how
of the classroom to one of creative exploration, heart, energy and, most amazing of all, playfulness. Students
UW School of Drama professor teaches law students the actor’s mindset in a new course offering at UW Law.
were encouraged to be vulnerable and stretch themselves before an audience, with an opportunity to see just how powerful they could be. They learned how to use words that resonate, combined with standing, gesturing and using their eyes to connect with each member of the audience. Seeing the great potential benefit to UW Law students for this kind
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policy changes of the Trump administration beginning soon after class started, the Immigration Clinic has been busy. In response to the “travel ban” and other executive orders, in February the clinic helped organize the first UW community immigration workshop. A panel addressed the impact of these immigration changes to UW students, faculty, and the community, and provided lawyer consults. In this first workshop, ten volunteer attorneys, along with clinic students and faculty, provided 69 attorney consults. This workshop was followed by two others in May and September, first updating on the travel ban and other executive order changes and then organizing a workshop focused on DACA.
of dynamic speaking instruction on a regular basis, Associate Dean of
cap signing up. Student feedback
an actor’s mindset and emotion affect
Experiential Education Christine
proved just how much this one course
perception and persuasion, influenced
Cimini and Professor From Practice
did to develop student confidence,
by tone of voice, gesture, posture and
Bill Bailey worked with Professor
poise and persuasion in public
movement. For the last five years,
Shahn to develop a formal course
speaking. Every member of the class
litigators in Seattle have increasingly
proposal, which was offered for the
felt that they emerged with a deeper
called on her for help, realizing a lack
first time in Spring, 2017. Word of it
understanding of themselves, the art
of communication skill was holding
spread quickly among the students,
of dynamic speaking and how to better
them back. The word spread quickly.
with more than double the enrollment
connect with an audience.
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students, faculty, and staff made a big difference in the lives of those in need. Whether advocating for legislative and policy changes, utilizing the court system to vindicate clients’ rights, educating our community about their legal rights in a world of tumultuous change and uncertainty, or mediating
disputes leading to just resolutions our
line, our first Scholar in Residence in
students and faculty engaged fully in
our Environmental Law and Policy
their work and impacted the lives of
Clinic, and the addition of a clinical
countless individuals who otherwise
teaching fellow. As our program
would have gone without supportive
continues to evolve, we recognize
advocacy.
and celebrate the many contributions
This past year saw the retirement
of those who have come before and
of Alan Kirtley, one of the founders of
look forward with anticipation and
our clinical program, the transition of
excitement to new programs and
one of our faculty onto a tenure-track
growth.
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AWARD
CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student— Patrick Carter This year’s CLEA outstanding clinic student award recipient was Patrick Carter. Prior to attending law school Patrick worked in the community mental health and child welfare fields. Here, he developed a visceral understanding of the challenges of traditionally underserved and undervalued peoples including: individual and multigenerational trauma; poverty; and oppression of people based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identification, and disability. Patrick came to law school after working with community mental health agencies, an area hospital, and the county suicide hotline to facilitate a reduction in juvenile 72-hour hospitalizations. Patrick didn’t go to law school with the goal of becoming a tax attorney, but was drawn to taxation law while studying with Professor Lily Kahng, who brought to life the core policies of the doctrine from a perspective of social justice. The nature of law as a mediating force between the government and its people, specifically, is a key factor that drew Patrick to its study. In tax law, he sees the opportunity to potentially impact an even larger system over time. His overall concern and lifetime objective is to bring positive impact to those who are not traditionally served by the services of tax attorneys or accounting firms in high rise buildings.
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Publications Kimberly Ambrose and Lisa Kelly, Representing Youth: Telling Stories, Imagining Change (September 2017). Jennifer Fan, Catching Disruption: Regulating Corporate Venture Capital, Colum. Bus. L. Rev. (forthcoming Spring 2018). Alejandra Gonza, The American Convention on Human Rights: Essential Rights (with Thomas Antkowiak), Oxford University Press, (2017). Alicia LaVezu, Alone and Ignored: Children without Advocacy in Child Abuse & Neglect Courts, 14 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties (forthcoming, June 2018). Jackie McMurtrie, A Tale of Two Innocence Clinics: Client Representation and Legislative Advocacy, in Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent (Daniel S. Medwed ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017). Todd A. Wildermuth, Introductory Essay: Catastrophe Thinking, Fast and Slow, 7 Wash. J. Envtl. L & Pol’y 251 (2017).
Presentations Kimberly Ambrose, Juvenile Brain Development and Sentencing, Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission, Lacey, WA (October 2017). Kimberly Ambrose, Racial Equity Issues in the Juvenile Justice System, University of Washington School of Law, Juvenile Training Academy CLE, July 2017 (Seattle, WA).
Kimberly Ambrose, How Racism Is Hard Wired in the Criminal Justice System, The Defender Initiative, 7th Annual Conference on Public Defense, Seattle, WA (March 2017) Christine Cimini, Community Lawyering’s Effect on Social Change: An Immigration Enforcement Case Study, New York University Law School, Clinical Writers’ Workshop (September 2017). Jennifer Fan, Presented Catching Disruption: Regulating Corporate Venture Capital, Business Associations and Comparative Law Sections joint program during the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting (January 2017). Alejandra Gonza, The Inter-American Human Rights System: Latest Jurisprudential Advances and Setbacks, 111th ASIL Annual Meeting, Washington DC (April 2017). Alejandra Gonza, Avances y retrocesos en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina (August 2017). Alejandra Gonza, International Human Rights: A Unifying And Potent Approach In The New Era, 2017 Annual Conference, International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA), Seattle, WA (September 2017). Kate Huber, The Shaken Baby Myth Debunked: Defending Cases of Abusive Head Trauma, Washington Defender Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Seattle, WA (Sept. 2017). Lauren McLane, DNA Today: The Impact of Forensic DNA Advances and Current Practices at the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory, Washington Defender Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Seattle, WA (Sept. 2017). Scott Schumacher, Tax AvoidanceImplications on Corporate Governance, Keio Global Symposium, Tokyo, Japan (January 2017). Anna Tolin, Probabilistic Genotyping in DNA Cases, Innocence Network Conference, San Diego, CA (March 2017). Anna Tolin, Challenging False Confessions: Youth and Emerging Adults, Washington Defender Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Seattle, WA (Sept. 2017). Lara Zarowsky, The Incentivized Witness – Tools to Challenge Snitch Testimony & Policy Reform Efforts, Washington Defender Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Seattle, WA (Sept. 2017). Lara Zarowsky, Working with Clinic Students in Innocence Clinics, Innocence Network Conference, San Diego, CA (March 2017).
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC
International Business and Human Rights Clinic Students Appear Before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights Students enrolled in the International Business and Human Rights Clinic were immersed in the practice of international human rights law this past year with advocacy trips to Washington, DC and Guatemala to participate in formal meetings with government and intergovernmental officials, prepare our client’s testimony, and testifying. The first team filed a request for immediate protection before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights on behalf of Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez -one of the leaders of the Zapotecos Indigenous peoples of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Oaxaca. The indigenous community is seeking international protection of indigenous people territories from a wind farm project to be developed by an international private corporation in their lands without prior and informed consent. The community was successful at halting the project by obtaining an injunction in Mexico, but the arbitrary transfer of the judge deciding in favor of the communities led to a protracted legal battle and threats against Bettina Cruz. A second set of students participated in a hearing in Washington, DC on the “Impact of Executive Orders on Human Rights in the United States.” The students prepared their client to present the undocumented community
CLINICS FACULTY AND STAFF Associate Dean of Experiential Education Christine Cimini Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic Lisa Kelly, Director Julia Bedell, CAYAC Fellow Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Jennifer Fan, Director Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Todd Wildermuth, Policy Director Sanne Knudsen, Scholar in Residence
perspective on the conditions of confinement at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Run by a private corporation, the NWDC holds almost 1,600 immigrants in civil detention. Students interviewed former detainees, hunger strike leaders, advocated for the end of the for-profit immigration model in the US with international legal arguments, participated in meetings with other organizations and presented their main findings to the Washington Attorney General’s office. At the request of hunger strikers, they filed an urgent appeal before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Finally, another team worked with Business and Social Responsibility
Federal Tax Clinic John Clynch Scott Schumacher, Director Immigration Clinic Christopher Strawn Innocence Project Northwest Jacqueline McMurtrie, Clinic Director Anna Tolin, Executive Director International Human Rights Clinic Alejandra Gonza Legislative Advocacy Clinic Lara Zarowsky, Policy Director
STUDENTS AND FACULTY PARTICIPATE IN THE U.S HEARINGS AT THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN WASHINGTON, DC
(BSR) a global nonprofit organization that coordinates a network of more than 250 member companies advising them on integrating sustainability into strategy and operations. They drafted a counseling memo for the annual meeting of the Human Rights Working Group (consisting of 25 companies). The Human Rights Working Group seeks to find operational guidance to implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and to explore the viability of external legal mechanisms, including national law and various international instruments and entities.
Mediation Clinic Christine Cimini, Director Race and Justice Clinic Kimberly Ambrose, Director Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic William Covington, Director Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic Molly Cohan Brenda Williams Stacy Lara Administrative Staff Harold Daniels, Robin Gianattasio, Bentley Collins
EXPERIENCE MATTERS
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