Winter 2025 Practicums
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AI For Legal Help (809E)
This project works closely with the Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Information Grant Program to research how the public interacts with AI platforms to seek legal assistance, and to develop a strategy around how to mitigate risks, ensure quality, and enhance access to justice on these AI platforms.
Bridging the Climate Data and Decisionmaking Divide (809Z)
Many companies, investors, advocates, researchers, and policymakers are frustrated by the lack of authoritative and accessible information that can confirm greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals. Decisionmakers cannot effectively combat climate change without shared, high-quality information on baseline and changing greenhouse gas conditions where emissions and/or removals are taking place.
Hopi Tribe Appellate Court Assistance Project (809S)
Students will assist the client, the Hopi Tribal Appellate Court, in two separate tracks. Track 1: Law Clerks and Track 2: Policy Research. Students in both tracks will travel to the Hopi Reservation and the Grand Canyon. This trip is tentatively scheduled for March 26-30 (the end of SLS spring break), though precise scheduling depends on the Hopi court calendar.
Roses Talk: Elevating At-Promise Student Voices in San José Unified (809X)
Despite decades of efforts to remediate racial disparities in education, low-income schools serving predominantly students of color continue to face significant challenges that perpetuate unequal educational outcomes. While no single solution can solve these complex issues, insights from the most marginalized students offer an underutilized source of knowledge that can drive more effective policies and practices.
Santa Clara County Litigation & Policy Partnership (SCCLPP) (807G)
This policy lab partners with the Office of the County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara. Students in the lab will work with the leadership and deputies of the office on both litigation and policy matters related to urgent local challenges. SCCLPP projects may include issues from a range of fields: environmental protection, consumer protection, criminal justice, land use law, the rights of immigrant residents, public health, election law, and local finance.