[Hamp-law] Fwd: Gates Public Service Law News - Fall 2007

Flavio Risech frisech at hampshire.edu
Mon Dec 10 21:11:29 EST 2007 

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>Dear Prelaw Advisor: The Gates Public Service 
>Law Program provides full tuition and costs for 
>5 students each year at the University of 
>Washington School of Law.
>The scholarships are available to students who 
>agree to make a commitment to practice in a 
>public service law setting after graduation for 
>a minimum of five years.
>Our deadline for fall 2008 applicants is January 
>15, 2008. If you have students who are good 
>candidates for this program please make them 
>aware of the opportunity. Below is our Fall 2007 
>newsletter;enjoy!!
>
>Michele Storms, Executive Director
>William H. Gates Public Service Law Program
>
>
>
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><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#welcome>Welcome 
>to the William H. Gates Public Service Law 
>Program
>
>  The Gates Public Service Law Program is an 
>exciting new program that provides scholarships 
>to students who will practice public service law 
>and also brings public service law programming 
>and dialogue to the University of Washington law 
>school community and the community at large. 
>Welcome to the first edition of the Gates PSL 
>Newsletter.  The UW School of Law is a premier 
>institution committed to excellence in teaching, 
>scholarship, and public service. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#welcome>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#2010>Who 
>are the Scholars in the Class of 2010?
>
>  Five talented new law students from all around 
>the United States have brought their great 
>passion for public service to the UW as the new 
>Gates Scholars, Class of 2010. The second class 
>of Scholars was selected during the spring of 
>2007 and began classes in Fall 2007. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#2010>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#2009summer>What 
>the Class of 2009 Scholars Did Last Summer
>
>  What do Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; 
>Belfast, Ireland; and Seattle, Washington have 
>in common? These were all locations where Gates 
>Scholars spent their summer internships. Each of 
>the members of the inaugural Scholar's Class of 
>2009 secured an exciting public service law 
>summer internship during the summer of 2007. The 
>Scholars found themselves in locations all over 
>the world from Emily Alvarado⤁s placement at 
>the Law Centre of Northern Ireland in Belfast, 
>Ireland as a William Sampson fellow to New York 
>City where Vanessa Torres Hernandez spent the 
>summer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
>
>Two Scholars secured positions in the city of 
>Seattle: Ilana Mantell at the Seattle Office of 
>the Federal Public Defender and Mike Peters at 
>Columbia Legal Services, a statewide civil legal 
>aid organization. Colleen Melody rounded out the 
>picture with a summer internship at the National 
>Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, Illinois. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#2009summer>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#speakers>Gates 
>PSL Speaker Series
>
>  Acore component of the Gates PSL Program is the 
>programming it offers to the entire law school, 
>university and broader community.  The Gates PSL 
>Speaker Series introduces the law school 
>community and others outside the law school to 
>information about the many ways attorneys can 
>serve the public good.  The first speaker of the 
>2007-08 academic year was John Teton, the 
>director of the International Food Security 
>Treaty Campaign. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#speakers>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#seminars>Gates 
>PSL Monthly Seminars, Social Justice Tuesdays 
>and More
>
>  This year the Gates Public Service Law Program 
>started a new series of lunchtime seminars to 
>bring law students and others who are able to 
>attend the opportunity to engage in conversation 
>with local practitioners about important issues 
>in public service law practice. Gates 
>PSL-sponsored seminars in the fall quarter 
>included: "So you want to do public service: The 
>law school survival guide" and "Education and 
>Integration: A Discussion about the Supreme 
>Court's Rulings in Seattle and Louisville." Both 
>included panelists from the community who are 
>local advocates actively engaged in public 
>interest work. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#seminars>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#psvoices>Check 
>Out "Public Service Voices"
>
>  The public service advocacy community has risen 
>to the challenge to help the Gates PSL Program 
>expose the law school community to the many ways 
>advocates can benefit the public good through 
>law. As the Gates PSL Program considered ways to 
>bring more information to the law school 
>community, many law students expressed the 
>desire to know more about what practitioners in 
>the community really do to promote public 
>service and equal justice. Thus the creation of 
>the "Public Service Voices" series on line. "PS 
>Voices" is a series of essays (and sometimes 
>student-led interviews) by people practicing law 
>and doing significant public service. The first 
>essay entitled "The Gratitude-Driven Practice" 
>was authored by Jason Vail, an attorney at the 
>Northwest Justice Project in Washington and also 
>a member of the Washington State Bar Association 
>Board of Governors. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#psvoices>Full 
>article >
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#birthday>Happy 
>Birthday to Bill Gates Sr.!
>
>  It was on the occasion of Bill Gates Sr.'s 
>eightieth birthday in November of 2005 that this 
>Program was created.  This birthday gift in 
>honor of Bill Sr. became a tremendous present 
>for each of the Scholars who now have the 
>opportunity to pursue their public service law 
>dreams without the burden of law school debt. 
> <http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/Default.aspx#birthday>Full 
>article >
>
>Fall 2007
>
>In This Issue:
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#welcome>Welcome 
>to the William H. Gates Public Service Law 
>Program
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#2010>Who 
>are the Scholars in the Class of 2010?
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#2009summer>What 
>the Class of 2009 Scholars Did Last Summer
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#speakers>Gates 
>PSL Speaker Series
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#seminars>Gates 
>PSL Monthly Seminars, Social Justice Tuesdays 
>and More
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#psvoices>Check 
>Out "Public Service Voices"
>
><http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/Newsletter/#birthday>Happy 
>Birthday to Bill Gates Sr.!
>
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