Mills Legal Clinic
SLS Faculty Perspectives
G. Marcus Cole on SLS Clinical Education
Jenny Martinez on SLS Clinical Education
Juliet Brodie on SLS Clinical Education
Mark Lemley on SLS Clinical Education
Message from the Director
In courtrooms, boardrooms, legislatures—anywhere legally trained people advance the interests of their clients—SLS clinic students make profound differences in the lives of their clients and bring the lessons they have learned in the classroom to life.
Juliet Brodie
Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Director
Mills Legal Clinic and Community Law Clinic
News from MLC
Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Juror Secrecy versus Defendants’ Right to Impartial Trial: SCOTUS to Hear Clinic’s Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, which asks whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury requires defendants in criminal cases to be allowed to introduce testimony from jurors to prove that racial bias infected jury deliberations. At the heart of the case is…
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Religious Liberty Clinic Celebrates Successful Academic Year
Immigrants' Rights Clinic Students Continue Work as Alumni to Win Deportation Case in San Francisco Immigration Court
Clinic Students Discuss Public Company Financial Reporting with Experienced GC
Immigrants' Rights Clinic Students Excited to See Spring Asylum Case to Completion as Advanced Students
Organizations and Transactions Clinic Wraps Up Spring Quarter
Clinics Offered
Pro Bono Project at MLC
Social Security Disability Pro Bono Project
The SLS Social Security Disability Project (SSDP), the Law School’s only in-house pro bono project, gives students the opportunity to work directly with local homeless clients.
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Stanford Center for Public Research and Leadership
The Stanford Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL), a partnership between Stanford and Columbia University, prepares students for research, consulting, and leadership positions in public education organizations committed to improving the life chances of all children. The program brings together upper-level Stanford graduate students in education, business, and law to study and engage in consulting projects serving public- and social-sector organizations undertaking and supporting transformational change in K-12 education and in the public sector as a whole.
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Clinical Education Experiences at SLS
Clinic Overview
Experience — solving real problems, serving real clients — is an essential ingredient in the training of every SLS student.
Founded in 2005, the Mills Legal Clinic is a vital part of Stanford Law’s mission to prepare every student for the challenges, responsibilities and rewards of a career as a legal professional. Providing individualized, hands-on learning opportunities, this intensive training ground shapes future lawyers of every career aspiration, whether they choose to work in a large firm, become entrepreneurs, make policy or engage in full-time public service. And because clinic is a full-time experience — an SLS distinction — you can immerse yourself without distractions.
