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Clinics & Externships
Clinic News
- Professor Michele Pistone Director of the Clinical Program and Director of the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services at Villanova Law School moderated a panel discussion on "Human Trafficking" at Villanova Law School on February 22, 2007. Panel members included Robert Courtney, Esq., Head of the Organized Crime Unit at Philadelphia's U.S. Attorney's Office; Ms. Mary DeLorey, Catholic Relief Services of Baltimore; Ms. Christina Miller, Coordinator of the Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition with the Philadelphia Archdiocese; and, Ms. Wendy Young, Coordinator of U.S. and External Relations at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). An article appeared in the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin" on this panel discussion which can be located here. To view the webcast of this discussion - Click here.
- Professor Leslie Book, Director of the Graduate Tax Program, has recently been in the news. Click here to read more.
The work of the Clinical Program has been reported in the articles listed below:
- Project hopes to bring Iraqi Students to U.S., The Loquitor (November 29, 2007)
- Fear was their guide out of Iraq, Los Angeles Times
(January 9, 2008)
- From Exile to Asylum: AStudent Activist’s Journey, Gavel Gazette at 1
(April 17, 2006)
- Trouble in Paradise: The CARES Program and the Maltese Crisis, Gavel Gazette at 6
(April 10, 2006)
- Immigration System Falters in
Aiding Domestic Abuse Victims, The Legal Intelligencer (July 27, 2004)
- ABC Visions
Program - Congolese Family, (October 5, 2002)
- Villanova Law Reunites Family Torn Apart in
War, Suburban & Wayne Times ( September 19, 2002)
- INS Changes in Post-9/11 World, The
Legal Intelligencer (September 11, 2002)
- Freeing a Former Child Soldier, The
Philadelphia Inquirer (August 4, 2002)
- Bilingual Undergraduates Aid Clients in Law School's Pro Bono
Clinics, Villanova Magazine at 19 (Spring 2002)
- IOLTA Grantee Spotlight...Law School Clinical Programs Foster Legal Skills and the Pro Bono
Ethic, ABA Dialogue at 9 (Spring 2002)
- Villanova's Undergraduate and Law Students Work Together in Pro Bono Law
Clinics, Blueprints at 1 (March 2002)
- Cesar Chavez Inspires New VLS Clinic, Gavel Gazette at 3 (April 1, 2002)
- Villanova Reaches Out to Those Seeking
Asylum, Legal Intelligencer at 6
(January 25, 2002)
- Making a Difference, One Client at a
Time, Gavel Gazette at 1
(February 11, 2002)
- Wanted: Enthusiastic Villanova Law
Students, Gavel Gazette at 1
(March 19, 2001)
- CARES Students Prevent Client's Imminent Deportation and Possibly, His
Death, Gavel Gazette at 1
(December 4, 2000)
- The Tax Clinic: Helping Others While Helping
Yourself, Gavel Gazette at 1
(October 30, 2000)
- VLS Student Prevents Client's Imminent
Eviction, Gavel Gazette at 1
(October 25, 1999)
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