Experiential Education

Experiential Education Clinics

Practicums

CREATIVE ADVOCACY LAB

INNOVATING LEGAL SERVICES engages students in community-based research and legal research on new legal service models.

Students create effective and compelling legal informational resources using community-informed design processes, plain language writing, visual communication tools, design thinking, and storytelling.

INNOCENCE CLINIC Students work with Rocky Mountain Innocence Center attorneys to investigate incarcerated clients’ innocence claims and prepare those claims for litigation.

INNOVATION FOR JUSTICE empowers students to design and launch solutions to address the justice gap.

UX4JUSTICE trains students to apply User Experience (UX) methodologies to the evaluation and design of justice sector technology.

Externships Students earn academic credit while gaining practical skills and training under licensed attorneys. With more than 100 placement options in many different areas of law, there’s an externship for everyone.

Co-requisite courses include Learning from Practice, Advanced Learning from Practice, Criminal Process, or Entrepreneurial Law.

Legal practice. Real-world experience.

Contact us Professor Jensie Anderson litigates innocence and wrongful conviction claims throughout Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. She supervises students in the Innocence Clinic. jensie.anderson@law.utah.edu Emily Aplin manages Experiential Learning Programs at the College of Law (Clinics, Externships and Practicums). externships@law.utah.edu Professor Stacy Butler has two decades of experience in community advocacy and expanding the reach of civil legal services for underrepresented people. She supervises students in Practicum courses. stacy@innovation4justice.org Professor Jacqueline Morrison runs the externship program and teaches various courses including Learning from Practice. jacqueline.morrison@law.utah.edu

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for Criminal Law preLaw Magazine, Back to School 2021

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for Public Interest preLaw Magazine, Back to School 2021

Professor Hallie Jay Pope is a lawyer, cartoonist, legal information designer, and the founder & president of the Graphic Advocacy Project. She supervises students in Creative Advocacy Lab. hallie.pope@law.utah.edu Professor Jennifer Springer is the Managing Attorney of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, overseeing all cases in investigation and litigation. She supervises students in the Innocence Clinic. jspringer@rminnocence.org

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