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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION NEWSLETTER

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

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