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Education Clinic Supports ACLU in Southern California Education Lawsuit
The Education Adequacy Project Clinic announced on July 2, 2018, that it had assisted the ACLU Foundation of Southern California in a landmark lawsuit filed yesterday to end school discipline policies that criminalize children of color in Riverside County, California.
ROLC, NAACP Sue Connecticut Over Prison Gerrymandering
Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic has filed a lawsuit together with The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Connecticut State Conference, and five individual NAACP members against the State of Connecticut challenging the practice known as “prison gerrymandering.”
WCS & Yale Clinic Release Report on Preserving Moskitia Forest Corridor
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University's Environmental Protection Clinic have created a plan to preserve one of the last intact forest strongholds for the jaguar and other iconic species in Central America: the Moskitia Forest Corridor. In a new report titled “ Stopping the Tide: A Strategy for Maintaining Forest Connectivity within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor,” the authors lay out recommendations on how to protect the ecologically vital forest landscape that straddles both Honduras and Nicaragua. One of the primary findings of the report is that conservation...
Righting a Wrongful Conviction
Vernon Horn served 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. But his fate changed when the Yale Law School community got involved.