Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s curriculum committee recently approved plans to start an immigrant rights and civil advocacy clinic on its Ann Arbor campus. The pro bono clinic opened in January of 2012 and is the 8th clinic in which students can participate. The new immigrant rights clinic is the first in-house clinic at Cooley’s Ann Arbor location. The clinic is supervised by Associate Professor Jason Eyster, who joined Cooley from the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida. Eyster was the supervisor of Ave Maria’s immigration law clinic and focused on immigration law in law school. (Read More)

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Professor Stevie Swanson of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Auburn Hills campus helped organize a clothing drive, with the help of Pi Alpha Delta Society, which benefitted Interim House. Interim House is part of Metropolitan Detroit’s YWCA which offers services for battered women and children. Interim House’s mission is to “empower survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault by helping them to realize the ability to control their lives”.  Through the drive, numerous bags of clothing and other personal items were collected to replenish the supplies of Interim House. (Read More)

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Students from the MSU College of Law presented a Housing Law clinic on October 21 in Lansing. Under the supervision of Professor Elan S. Nichols, students presented a “Veterans Housing Rights” seminar for the veteran’s support group at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. MSU’s College of Law students helped veterans deal with subsidized housing issues and explained how to make the most of the landlord–tenant relationship.  (Read More)