Practical Experience
Alumni, Staff Reflect on 50 Years of Legal Aid Clinic
Since 1967, more than 1,300 students have cut their teeth in KU Law's Legal Aid Clinic under the supervision of seasoned attorneys and faculty, working to secure “justice for and to protect the rights of the needy.” The Fall 2017 issue of KU Law Magazine features a retrospective story marking the…
Business Suits + White Coats
In MLP, student learns value of lawyers, doctors partnering for healthy communitiesLooking past the stereotypes, lawyers and doctors have a lot in common. Usually seen as adversaries, I know that at least medical students and law students can be friends.My best friend is an M2 at KU Med – no, not a…
Working for a Better Kansas
This summer I had the privilege of working as a Justice Fellow for the Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice in Lawrence, Kansas. I received the internship offer through an on-campus interview and immediately accepted it. Kansas Appleseed is a nonprofit, nonpartisan justice center dedicated…
Business Owner, Student, Mom
Graduate's student experience enriched by expanding rolesSome babies are rocked to sleep with lullabies. Taylor Ray’s daughter Emma was lulled into slumber with voice recordings of Professor Webb Hecker’s Mergers and Acquisitions lectures. In the midst of an enriching 2L year serving as president…
El Paso Native Finds Her Niche at KU Law
Challenging coursework, enriching leadership experiences, practical learning opportunities recipe for graduate's successSylvia Hernandez is the first to note that her transition to law school wasn’t an easy one. Moving from El Paso, Texas, to Lawrence required a big adjustment and new perspective…
Exploring Immigration Policy at UNHCR
Interning at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, seemed like a hopeless goal a year ago, but it became a reality this summer. Thanks to KU Law’s Career Services Office, I attended the Equal Justice Works Conference in Washington D.C. this past October. During this trip, I met KU Law alumni working in…
Crusading for the Planet
3L takes on polluters, habitat destroyers through environmental law internshipWhen people ask what kind of work I did this summer at Earthjustice, I tell them it was like being one of Captain Planet’s planeteers: battling villains that breathed smog, slung sludge and stomped on cute, defenseless…
A Firsthand Look at Federal Indian Law
3L gains experience through internship with Prairie Band Potawatomi NationThis summer I worked as a law clerk for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Mayetta, Kansas. The Prairie Band Potawatomi are one of four federally recognized Indian tribes in Kansas, along with the Sac & Fox Nation of…
An Entrepreneur in the Law
The Legal Hackers International Summit in Brooklyn featured lawyers, professors, coders and entrepreneurs from the U.S., Nigeria, Ukraine, Dubai, Canada and more ― all focused on the common theme of making law more accessible and efficient through technology. 2L Nate Crosser, third from left on the…
Sixth Semester Participants Discover D.C.
I can sum up my experience in D.C. by taking you through the events of Saturday, March 25, 2017—the day Frank, Josh and Devontè broke our collective hearts. It started like the best weekend mornings in D.C. -- eating brunch with friends, mimosa in hand. For reasons I haven’t quite deduced, brunch…