Archive for “18 April 2011 ”
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Marianna Tuninskaya Public Interest Law Fellow “To what greater object, to what greater character, can we aspire as lawyers than to assist the helpless and friendless in a worthy [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Octavio Simoes-Ponce Public Interest Law Fellow Before starting my fellowship placement with Southern Legal Counsel (SLC), my concept of “constitutional law” was mostly a federal one. This was unfortunate [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Lamar Miller Public Interest Law Fellow As a Florida Bar Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow, I assisted the staff attorneys at Three Rivers Legal Services. At my work site, [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Vanessa Goodwin Public Interest Law Fellow Prior to coming to law school, the criminal justice system was a very simple concept to me. If a person committed a crime, [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Miredys Gonzalez Public Interest Law Fellow The Florida Bar Foundation Public Interest Law Fellowship allowed me to work at the Juvenile Division of the offices of the public defender. [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Nicole Safker (2L) Thirty-five years ago, a group of black students in Soweto, a large settlement outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, left their classrooms and gathered in the streets [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Heather Judd Special to FlaLaw The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program is proud to announce its 2011 J.D. Conservation Law Fellows [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
The Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) Public Interest Law Fellowship program is a cooperative effort between The Florida Bar Foundation and CGR that began in the mid-1980s and provides low-income [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Brandon Breslow Student Writer As William Hamilton (JD 83) addressed members of the North Central Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (FBA), he held an ordinary laptop, standard [...]
Published: Apr 18th, 2011
By Roberta O. Roberts Student Writer After reading about a gross violation of the human rights of an American citizen held prisoner in North Korea last year, Michael Cavendish (JD [...]