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Clinics

Gain hands-on, practical experience and give a voice to the voiceless in one of Mercer Law School’s clinics.

Habeas Project – work on pro se cases pending before the Georgia Supreme Court to represent people wrongfully imprisoned. Founded in 2006, the Habeas Project is the only program in Georgia to handle non-capital, post-conviction cases on a strictly pro-bono basis.

Immigration Appeals Clinic – One of the first clinics in the state of Georgia and the Southeast. Students draft legal documents involved in immigration appeals with the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington D.C.

Domestic Violence Clinic – students represent victims in Temporary Protective Orders. Under the supervision of faculty, students are responsible for all aspects of trial preparation litigation and work directly with a local domestic violence shelter.

 

Clinics are available to upper level students. The Habeas project is available to third year students. And that's an opportunity for them to bring together what they've learned in evidence, in con-law, constitutional law, in criminal procedure, in client counseling, all comes together. Where they represent a real person who has a constitutional criminal law issue before the Supreme Court of Georgia.

And we're actually impacting a person's life. So I'm assigned to a four person team for one specific client, who has been in prison for a little over 30 years. And so we're just trying to hopefully help him be released in transition back out into the community. So we get to know the person that we're serving, but we're also getting legal writing skills. We're having client counseling, and we're also having direct instruction from a practicing attorney.

Our students in the Immigration Appeals clinic have a really different opportunity from other clinics. They're working with immigrants, often with immigrants who are in detention, they're having an opportunity to to help people and to help people who otherwise would likely have no representation. And I think that makes students feel like what they're doing really matters.

 

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