Public Service in the News

• May 17, 2007
  UW Loan Repayment Assistance Program Receives State Funding
  A $500,000 appropriation for the UW School of Law loan repayment assistance program (LRAP) endowment fund, included in the Washington state 2007-09 budget, was signed by Governor Christine Gregoire May 15. The money is slated to provide UW law school graduates who pursue careers in public interest legal positions with payment assistance toward their student loan debt.
• May 15, 2007
  Grants Awarded to UW Law Students for Public Interest Law Work - PILA
  The Public Interest Law Association (PILA), a student group at the University of Washington School of Law, have announced the recipients of their 2007 summer grants.
• April 13, 2007
  UW Law School Announces 2007 Sampson Fellows
  The UW School of Law announces the 2007 recipients of the William Sampson Fellow in Comparative Public Interest Law: Michiko Hase 1L, Emily Jarvis 1L, Emily Alvarado 1L, Elizabeth Hawkins 1L.
• April 10, 2007
  UW Law School Announces 2007 Recipients of Gates Public Service Law Scholarship
  The UW School of Law announces the selection of the 2007 William H. Gates Public Service Law (PSL) Scholarship recipients: Michael Geoghegan, Meena Jagannath, Salmun Kazerounian, Jeni Krencicki, and Netsanet Tesfay.
• March 6, 2007
  12th Annual PILA Auction Raises $97,000
  Exceeding last year's proceeds by $30,000 the UW School of Law Public Interest Law Association (PILA) raised $97,000 at its twelfth annual fundraising auction February 2, 2007.
• February 2007
  Service Commitment Pays Dividends at UW - KCBA Bulletin
• February 23, 2007
  Law School Hosts Climate Change Conference - UWeek
  Law School Hosts Climate Change Conference
  School of Law will host a conference on the law, economics, and impact of climate change March 2, 2007 in William H. Gates Hall.
• February 20, 2007
  NYU Public Interest Law Director to Speak at UW Law School
  The UW School of Law will host a lecture by Deborah Ellis, Assistant Dean for Public Interest Law at New York University, on Monday, February 26 at 4:00 p.m. in William H. Gates Hall Room 133.
• February 9, 2007
  Cruise ship waste: All ashore? - Seattle P-I
  Officials at the Department of Ecology would like cruise ships to look at pumping waste ashore, where it would be treated and used for fertilizer on farms and forestlands. Students Nathan Phillips and Rob Hatfield from the law school's Berman Environmental Law Clinic have been working with their client, Bluewater Network (an environmental activist group), and the Port of Seattle.
• February 8, 2007
  Uniquely Washington: Professor Lisa Kelly uses the law to help vulnerable young people - UWeek
  This installment of "Uniquely Washington" focuses on law professor Lisa Kelly and her works as the director of the law school's Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic.
• January 29, 2007
  South African Justice Albie Sachs - KUOW
  Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who presented a UW School of Law Condon-Falknor Lecture, speaks with Weekday host Steve Scher.