Clinical Program Highlights

Clinical Community

In Spring 2022, the UDC Law Clinical Program kicked off Conversations with Clinicians, a series that brings leading experiential legal educators from across the country to the UDC Law community, focusing on topics of interest to our community.

Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic

UDC Law partners with Rising for Justice to provide Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic for students

In Fall 2022, UDC Law launched a new partnership with Rising for Justice to offer students the Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic focused on eviction defense. This semester, the eight UDC Law student attorneys participating in the Clinic have been keeping their clients housed and enforcing their tenant rights. The students cover a week in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of the courthouse where they interview and provide same-day legal advice at the courthouse and through community outreach events at affordable housing complexes. Students also represent tenants in hearings. 

Legislation Clinic

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected Professor Marcy L. Karin as the Fulbright Scotland Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at University of Edinburgh. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Karin will work on a project titled Menstrual Justice at Work and School: Public Policy Lessons from Scotland’s Period Products Law.  

General Practice Clinic

Prof. Andy Budzinski received the COVID-19 Hero Award from DC SAFE (Survivors and Advocates for Empowerment) at their annual gala this fall at The Eleanor DC. Budzinski was nominated by DC SAFE’s Supportive Advocacy Services Director Nicole Walter for the General Practice Clinic’s work with the DC SAFE Petitioner Assistance program. 

New Clinical Faculty

The UDC Law Clinical Program welcomed two new professors, and another long-time faculty member has rejoined the clinical faculty. Ieshaah Murphy joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Law Clinic, and Sakinah Tillman takes on the Tax Clinic as Assistant Professor and Director. Professor of Law Saleema Snow is directing the Youth Justice Clinic after several years of leading the Legal Writing Program.

Clinical Scholarship

2021-2022 Clinical Faculty Scholarship

UDC Law’s Clinicians, all tenured or tenure-track Professors of Law, not only work daily to practice law, promote justice and change lives with our students but they also take the time to advocate for systemic change through scholarship, media appearances, training and other advocacy.

Legislation Clinic

Sarah Buskirk '22 and DV LEAP Legal Director and Interim Executive Director Sasha Drobnick wrote a letter in March – in consultation with DV LEAP Managing Attorney Elizabeth Vogel – to United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem urging those in power to center the experiences of domestic violence survivors in policy that addresses climate change.

Immigration and Human Rights Clinic

Immigration and Human Rights Clinic client from East Africa granted asylum after nearly two years of working on her case 

On June 21, 2022, Imani*, an Immigration and Human Rights Clinic client from East Africa, was granted asylum after nearly two years of work with the clinic. 

University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Clinical Program Faculty and Staff

Community Development Law Clinic 

Jerome Hughes, Director and Assistant Professor of Law

Criminal Law Clinic  

Ieshaah Murphy, Director and Assistant Professor of Law

General Practice Clinic 

Andy Budzinski, Co-Director and Assistant Professor of Law  

Tianna Gibbs, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Law 

Housing Litigation and Advocacy Clinic 

David Yellin, Clinic Interim Director & Deputy Director of Tenant Justice Program at Rising for Justice 

Dan Clarke, Director, Tenant Justice Program  

Immigration and Human Rights Clinic 

Lindsay M. Harris, Director, Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Programs   

Legislation/Civil Rights Clinic 

Marcy L. Karin, Director and Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Law  

Tax Clinic 

Sakinah Tillman, Director of Tax Clinic, and Assistant Professor of Law 

Jacqueline Lainez Flanagan, Associate Professor of Law

Whistleblower Protection Clinic 

Tom Devine, Director & Legal Director of Government Accountability Project 

Youth Justice Clinic 

Saleema Snow, Director and Professor of Law 

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Twinette Johnson, Acting Dean

Lindsay M. Harris, Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Programs, Professor of Law  

Tiffanny Smith, Managing Attorney 

Olivia Carvajal, Clinical Legal Specialist 

Brittany Harding, Clinical Program Student Worker  

Joshua Luss, Clinical Program Student Worker