Open House

Please join the CLSR professors and staff along with alumni who work in the public interest field for hors d’oeuvres and conversation

The CLSR sponsors pro bono and public service activities through which faculty, students and alumni support socially responsible goals.

“We send people out into the world ready to practice law that advances socially responsible ends.
- Professor David Siegel, Co-Director CLSR

Find out how you can get involved in one of our projects!

• Criminal Justice – Professor David Siegel, Director
• Environmental Advocacy – Professor Peter Manus, Director
• Immigration – Professor Dina Haynes, Director
• Women’s and Children’s Advocacy – Professor Sonya Garza and Associate Dean Judith Greenberg, Co-Directors
• Public Service – Professor Russell Engler, Director

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26^th
CHERRY ROOM
4:30-6:30 pm

Refreshments will be served

For more information, contact CLSR Fellow Susie Walton at susan.m.walton@nesled or (617) 422-7434, or Professor Peter Manus, CLSR Co-Director, at pmanus@nesl.edu

Immigration Project Panel

Immigration Law Project Discussion

Join a panel of student-speakers as they share their experiences working with Professor Dina Francesca Haynes on Immigration Projects and learn how you can become involved

Ongoing and Past Projects Include:

• Refugee and Asylum Assistance: 1) amicus brief in Matter of A-T- which overturned a lower court decision on FGM, 2) work with Bingham McCutchen on a Tibet asylum case, 3) Liberian girls returned to Ghanaian refugee camps, 4) religious persecution asylum application

• Human Trafficking Assistance: work with the Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force on the 2008 Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

• Internships in Refugee and Human Rights Law: 1) migrant labor and human rights in Zacatecas, Mexico, 2) UNHCR in Malta, 3) refugee resettlement in Kenya

Student speakers:

• Erin Brown, class of 2009
• Olya Chervatyuk, class of 2011
• Mary Chicorelli, class of 2011
• Ellen Houseal, class of 2009
• Stephanie Kul, class of 2009
• Rochelle Meddoff, class of 2010
• Angela Santoro, class of 2009
• Mark Scioladone, class of 2009
• Victoria Turner, class of 2010
• Susan Walton, class of 2008, CLSR fellow

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th
CHERRY ROOM at 2:30

Refreshments will be served

For more information, contact CLSR Fellow Susie Walton at susan.m.walton@nesl.edu or at (617) 422-7434, or Professors Dina Haynes at dhaynes@nesl.edu

Welcome!

Welcome to the CLSR Weblog. Please browse around, catch up on our latest public interest law projects, peruse our links (including the one to our home site, New England Law | Boston), and send us a comment!

About the CLSR
The CLSR is a public interest law center located at New England Law | Boston in downtown Boston. The law professors, administrators, alumni and students who work with the CLSR strive to integrate socially responsible legal work into the lives of everyone associated with our law school, with a special focus on our students. A dynamic enterprise, the CLSR changes every year. Presently, we host five projects headed up by six professors. The projects focus on criminal justice, environmental advocacy, women's and children's advocacy, immigration law, and general public interest law. Our Pro Bono Coordinator is Sarah Coffey, who is a member of New England Law's Career Services Office.

We also hire a CLSR Fellow every year, who must be a graduate of the law school and who engages in a ten month public service law project and aids us as an administrator, student assistance coordinator, and much-needed voice of reason. For the 2008-2009 year, the CLSR Fellow is Susan Walton, New England Law Class of 2008.

We hope that you enjoy what you find and continue to visit this blog in the future.

Spring 2009 Environmental Advocacy Activities

The Environmental Advocacy Project is very busy this spring. We've joined a Massachusetts group of environmental advocates working to reinvigorate the environmental justice movement on the state level, and as such Professor Manus and his Environmental Advocacy students are researching innovative ways that EJ concerns can be brought into certain regulatory processes. We're also aiding a citizen group that wants to develop some creative arguments for incorporating more green space into urban shoreline plans. On the homefront, we're moving forward on a green audit plan for the law school. Keep visiting the blog and we'll post updates on these and other projects.

Terms of Use

Terms of Use for Using this Website

This post constitutes the Administrators' legal disclaimer and commenters' terms of use (the "TERMS OF USE").

ADMINISTRATORS may preserve and disclose content submitted by you, the commenter, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (1) comply with legal process; (2) enforce these Terms of Use; (3) respond to claims that any such content violates the rights of third parties; or (4) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ADMINISTRATORS, WEB SITE users, and the public.

ADMINISTRATORS shall have the right in their sole discretion to refuse to post any comments to the WEB SITE that it believes to be in violation of these TERMS OF USE or which it finds to be otherwise objectionable or unsuitable for inclusion on this WEB SITE for any reason, without any liability to you.

It is a violation of these TERMS OF USE for you, the commenter, to: use this WEB SITE for illegal purposes, in violation of any applicable laws or regulations or in violation of any rules specified on such areas of this WEB SITE; upload, post, e-mail, or distribute any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law, or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, confidential information learned as part of employment relationships, or under nondisclosure agreements); upload, post, e-mail, or distribute the proprietary information of another (whether protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right) without the express permission of the owner of such right; sell, resell or exploit for commercial purposes, any portion of this Web Site; upload, post, e-mail, or distribute any content that is unlawful, deceptive, misleading, false, counterfeit, stolen, threatening, harassing, abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, racially or ethnically objectionable, or in violation of the personal privacy rights of another; intentionally forge headers, manipulate identifiers or otherwise engage in any activities intended to hide a user’s identity or contact information; upload, post, e-mail, or distribute any content that contains software viruses or any other computer code designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or send unsolicited commercial messages or communications in any form (spam); assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above.

Each user of this WEB SITE, including you: is responsible for the content that the user transmits to this WEB SITE, and the consequences of its use or submission; is responsible for ensuring that the content that the user transmits and receives through this WEB SITE complies with all applicable laws and regulations (including those relating to export control) and these TERMS OF USE; and is responsible for ensuring that all content the user transmits to this WEB SITE is relevant, accurate, truthful, up-to-date and complete.

You understand that the Internet is public and that all communications between you and ADMINISTRATORS via this WEB SITE are subject to the risk of being viewed by other parties. Accordingly, you agree not to transmit confidential or proprietary information relating to you or your business to ADMINISTRATORS via e-mail.

COPYRIGHT
This WEB SITE is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. By posting a comment on this WEB SITE, you hereby surrender any copyright and related intellectual property rights to ADMINISTRATORS.