Unemployment Compensation Clinic

Unemployment Compensation Clinic students represent unemployed workers whose eligibility for unemployment benefits is being challenged.  They handle contested administrative hearings, essentially mini-trials, before Administrative Law Judges.  In addition, students may represent their clients in appeals to the Commissioner of the Employment Security Department, or the Washington Courts.

Unemployment Compensation Clinic News

• WA Supreme Court sets oral argument in Unemployment Compensation Clinic client’s case
  The Washington Supreme Court heard oral argument in Batey v. St. of Washington Dept. of Employment Security on February 26, 2008. Director of the Unemployment Compensation Clinic (UCC) and the Clinical Law Program, Prof. Deborah Maranville, will argue the case for Ms. Batey. The issue in the case concerns whether a retroactive 2006 amendment to the Employment Security Act violates the subject-in-title provision of the Washington State Constitution.
• Pam Crone working with Child Advocacy
  Former UCC Acting Director Pam Crone is supervising four students who worked in the Child Advocacy Clinic's initial Legislative Policy Clinic.   The students work with the Washington State Bar Association's Juvenile Law Section on policy issues affecting youth in foster care.
• Debbie Maranville gives international presentation
  During her 2006-2007 sabbatical Clinic Director Debbie Maranville spoke at Australian National University in Canberra and University of Technology in Sydney about the effect of globalization on the ability of governments to provide public benefits. On returning from her sabbatical she became the Director of the Clinical Law Program.
• Deborah Maranvile named new clinic director - UW Law Spring '08