Supreme Court Clinics Coming to Yale, UVa

Yale Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law are introducing Supreme Court litigation clinics this fall, Law.com reports.

Yale and UVa will be only the second and third law schools in the country to offer third-year students a chance to work on Supreme Court litigation.

The clinics are modelled after the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School, created and taught by Prof. Pamela Karlan and Lecturer Tommy Goldstein. Clinic students helped make legal history this year by providing research and other support for Karlan and Goldstein's winning argument in Georgia vs. Randolph, a case contesting the legitimacy of a warrantless police search of the home of the Clinic's client. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Clinic's client on March 22.

According to Law.com, Harvard Law School is considering expanding the course it now offers on Supreme Court advocacy into a litigation clinic. Northwestern and Georgetown are also reported to be exploring the possibility of establishing Supreme Court clinics.

Source: "Attorneys Take Supreme Court Advocacy Back to School," by Tony Mauro - Law.com, July 20, 2006