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Full-Text Articles in Public Interest
The U Visa At 25: Legislative Missteps, Bureaucratic Neglect, And Geographic Roulette, Jason A. Cade
The U Visa At 25: Legislative Missteps, Bureaucratic Neglect, And Geographic Roulette, Jason A. Cade
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A quarter century ago, Congress created the U visa with dual goals: protecting immigrant crime victims and facilitating law enforcement cooperation by removing deportation barriers to crime reporting. Yet the program as implemented has fallen dramatically short of these aims. This Essay provides the first comprehensive analysis of the U visa's structural failures at its twenty-fifth anniversary. Two fundamental design flaws plague the program. First, Congress capped U visas at 10,000 annually-far below actual need-while the immigration agency has consistently failed to implement congressionally-authorized interim protections. The result is that, as of 2025, applicants wait five years for work authorization …
Law School Veterans Clinics: Helping Veterans, Training Students, Improving The System, Alexander W. Scherr
Law School Veterans Clinics: Helping Veterans, Training Students, Improving The System, Alexander W. Scherr
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This essay makes the case for law schools to create clinics and externship courses that address the needs of veterans. Veterans legal work offers excellent opportunities to represent individual veterans to obtain the benefits they earned through service to our country. At the same time, veterans clinic work can enlist students in systemic advocacy that changes how institutions address veterans' needs through appellate, administrative, and class action advocacy. Law students who work in veterans clinics develop skills they can readily transfer to other practice areas while working closely with clients and developing their professional identities. Finally, veterans clinics help law …
Harnessing The Power Of Community Through Pop-Up Legal Clinics, Elizabeth Grant, Christine M. Scartz
Harnessing The Power Of Community Through Pop-Up Legal Clinics, Elizabeth Grant, Christine M. Scartz
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The article discusses the effectiveness of pop-up legal clinics in addressing the justice gap by providing free legal advice to those in need. These clinics, operating under Georgia's Rule of Professional Conduct 6.5, offer limited scope consultations, enabling attorneys to fulfill their pro bono obligations while helping individuals navigate legal issues. The initiative underscores the power of community collaboration and highlights the positive impact on both clients and volunteer attorneys.
Disparities In The Use Of Prophylactic Treatments In Reproductive Health Between The Sexes: A Recommendation For The Use Of Hpv Vaccination Schemes Rather Than Surgical Interventions To Reduce Inequities And Threats To The Public’S Health, Paul Mclaughlin
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This Article will examine the unequal treatment of the sexes under the law with regard to prophylactic treatments against STDs. The second section of this Article will discuss the ethical and legal issues in the use of prophylactic treatments and the issues involving informed consent regarding their use. The third section of this Article will discuss the historic and current use of prophylactic surgeries on both sexes to prevent disease and the challenges that have been raised against such practices. The fourth section of this Article will discuss the use of the H.P.V. vaccinations in both sexes to reduce the …