AOI: Children and the Law
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@UMICHLAW Fall 2017
Inaugural Fiza Quraishi Fellow Begins Work at NCYL
As Fiza Quraishi’s Michigan Law classmates gathered to celebrate their 10-year reunion in September, the inaugural recipient of the Fellowship created in her memory began working at the National Center for Youth and Law (NCYL) in Oakland, California.
@UMICHLAW Spring 2017
@UMICHLAW: Spring 2017
Barb McQuade joins Michigan Law faculty | Dean West reappointed | Clerking for Justice Kennedy | and more...
@UMICHLAW Spring 2016
Michigan Law’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic: Theory and Practice Come Together in Trial Experience
In 2014, a woman named Ashley came to Michigan Law’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic to help her gain custody of her children from her violently abusive husband. She met 2Ls Dani Angeli and Alanna Farber, who became her champions, working with Ashley on the case all the way through her trial.
Impact Fall 2016
Youth Law Fellowship Honors Fiza Quraishi, ’07
For young lawyers with a passion for helping disadvantaged children, pursuing such a career is limited by scarce job opportunities. A new fellowship will offer a gateway by bringing Michigan Law students to the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)—while honoring a woman who left an enormous legacy at both institutions.
@UMICHLAW Fall 2016
@UMICHLAW: Fall 2016
Prof. Edward Cooper's clap out | Mich. governor signs Michigan Law clinic bills | Child Welfare Appellate Clinic scores three big wins | and more...
Cover Story Spring 2015
Doctor’s Orders: Call Your Lawyer
Medical-legal partnerships, such as the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic at Michigan Law, address the social conditions that affect the health and well-being of people and communities. Says Clinic Director Debra Chopp: “The idea is that the legal clinic becomes part of the medical team. We’re all working together to improve the health of the child.”
Features Spring 2014
Detroit Center for Family Advocacy: Keeping Families Together
The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy (CFA), founded by Vivek Sankaran, ’01, a clinical professor of law in the Law School’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic, works like this: An attorney from the center partners with a social worker and family advocate to remove legal barriers and safety risks that otherwise might cause a child to be put in the foster care system.
Cover Story Spring 2014
Dan Varner, ’94: Fostering Excellence in Education
Formerly a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and CEO at Think Detroit PAL, Dan Varner, ’94, is the CEO of Excellent Schools Detroit, a coalition of education, government, community, and philanthropic leaders and organizations whose goal is to ensure an “excellent education for every child.”
Cover Story Spring 2014
Felicia Andrews, ’04: Helping Youth Succeed Through Team 313
A self-described “impact person,” Felicia Andrews, ’04, reassessed her career goals and decided that the changes she was making at the macro level in South Africa through her work with the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development could be applied at the micro level in Detroit.
@UMICHLAW Spring 2014
Sankaran Challenges Michigan’s One-Parent Doctrine
Since his arrival in 2005, Professor Vivek S. Sankaran, ’01, has been working to change Michigan's one-parent doctrine. It states that the court gets jurisdiction over a child based on the finding that one parent is unfit. “My initial reaction was that this is insane, this idea that you can take children away from both parents based solely on findings against one,” he says.