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Welcome New Gates Public Service Law Scholars!
After a competitive selection process involving interviews with twenty truly impressive
candidates we’ve selected our new Gates Scholars who will enter UW Law in
the fall of 2012. With interests ranging from international human rights to rights
for incarcerated persons to equity in public education, these five young people
will bring a strong passion for justice to UW Law.
Learn more about Victoria Clark, Lauren Conner, Megan Crenshaw, Jessica
Knowles and Nikkita Oliver.
Pro Bono Honors Program Hits a High Mark
 The Pro Bono Honors Program this year recognized 50 students,
12 faculty and 10 staff persons, all of whom reported volunteering a total of 8056
hours of pro bono legal and community service. Student participants also benefited
from trainings addressing professional responsibility, cross cultural competence
and secondary trauma as a required part of program participation. Learn more about
the Pro Bono Honors
Program and some of our inspirational stories of service.
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A Successful Year of Public Service Programming
Congo’s Rape Crisis
Spring quarter included some significant highlights of public service law programming.
In addition to the usual weekly
Social Justice Tuesday programming this April the law school hosted professionals
from the American Bar Association Rule of Law Institute to address “Combating
Congo's Rape Crisis and the Scourge of Impunity: How We Turned The Corner After
500,000 Rapes.” After showing a very compelling film about the rape crisis
in Congo, UW Law alum Brahmy Poologasingham, Program Manager, Africa Division, ABA
ROLI and Charles Guy Makongo, Country Director, ABA ROLI office in Democratic Republic
of the Congo shared their experiences, challenges and successes in working with
this program.
Education Equity
This spring UW Law sponsored a two day conference, Forces of Change: Justice &
Equity in Public Education on April 27-28. This program was instigated by the University
of Washington School of Law, its student led Education Law and Policy Society (ELPS),
and the W.H. Gates Public Service Law Program. UW Law also partnered with the Evans
School of Public Affairs and the UW School of Education. Some eighty individuals
from varying disciplines and backgrounds attended this two day event designed to
bring stakeholders together across disciplines to address unequal access to high
quality public education for poor students and students of color. A brilliant keynote
address by Chris Edley, the Co-Director of The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute
on Law and Social Policy and the Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished
Chair and Dean, set the tone for a challenging yet collegial discussion on how best
to education this nation’s children.
Women’s Rights
The Gates Public Service Law Program also hosted its final speaker series of the
school year on April 30, 2012, featuring Susan Cohen, Director of Government Affairs,
Guttmacher Institute speaking on "Contraceptive Coverage under the Affordable Care
Act: Where Sex, Politics and Religion Collide." Ms. Cohen demystified the Affordable
Care Act while walking the audience through the challenges of making good policy
when sex, politics and religion are at odds.
These events and many others will be featured on the
media gallery soon.
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Public Service for your iPod
 You
can download
Gates Public Service Speaker Series lectures and
Social Justice Tuesdays seminars from the UW School of Law on iTunes
U directly to your iTunes desktop application, iPhone or iPod.
 Gates Public Service Speaker Series lectures
are also available on the
UW School of Law Multimedia Gallery.
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PILA Celebration
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Jeff Lane, 2009 Grantee
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It was a great pleasure for the Center for Public Service Law to partner with the
Public Interest Law Student Association on May 9, 2012, to honor and celebrate the
newest PILA grant recipients
and to announce and applaud the newest entrants into the
PILA Hall of Fame.
With the support of the law school administration PILA is launching a fundraising
drive to create an endowment. Currently only about a third of the students who apply
for PILA summer grants are able to be funded. The goal of the endowment is to provide
summer grants to all law students who have a public service position for the summer.
It is a lofty goal well worth pursuing.
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The Center for Public Service Law and all its staff wish everyone a happy summer.
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Welcome Gates Public Service Law Scholars
Pro Bono Honors Program Hits a High Mark
A Successful Year of Public Service Programming
Public Service for your iPod
PILA Celebration
The Gates Public Service Law Program exists because the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation wished to honor Bill Gates Sr., '50 for his career-long dedication to
public service. In his current role as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation he continues his commitment to service on the global stage.
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