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UCLA Law's Criminal Defense Clinic — L to R: Julie Cramer ’03, Petar Nalbantov ’23, Ingrid Eagly, and Jenna Finkle ’22 worked on the Criminal Defense Clinic’s compassionate release cases.

Thanks to the work of students and faculty of the UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic, two Southern California men serving life sentences in federal prison for non-violent drug convictions were granted compassionate release this year, allowing them to return home to their families.

Members of UCLA Law's Bail Practicum — L to R: Nina Papachristou ’22, Alicia Virani ’11, and Katie Gowing ’23 collaborated with other students and colleagues in UCLA Law’s Bail Practicum.

In courthouses at opposite ends of Los Angeles County this fall, eight students in UCLA School of Law’s innovative Bail Practicum (now Pretrial Justice Clinic) stood up and advocated for four incarcerated clients who had been awaiting trial while in custody for seven weeks to 14 months. In all four cases, they earned favorable outcomes.

Oct 14, 2021

Joanna Schwartz Writes an Op-Ed in USA Today on the Need to Reform Police Qualified Immunity

UCLA Law Professor Sharon Dolovich heads the COVID Behind Bars Data Project.

UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich co-wrote an article on rates of COVID-19 infection and death in U.S. prisons that has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the country’s leading medical journal.

Oct 07, 2021

Joanna Schwartz Is Quoted in the Washington Post on Failed Efforts to End Police Qualified Immunity

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