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JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A coalition of international legal advocates sent a joint letter Saturday to Professor Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemning the growing trend of government officials intimidating and endangering the legal representatives of politically controversial clients. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 12:37 am by Steve Lubet
where he met a number of clinical teachers who would inspire him to become a public defender (Tamar Birckhead, Jojo Liu, Maureen Pacheco, Gene Nichol, Theresa Newman, etc.). [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
The Age of the Child Tamar Birckhead (Yale Law School) Profile Email: tamar.birckhead@yale.edu SSRN Recently I had the opportunity to spend time with a group of wonderful clinical law professors who were visiting New Haven, Connecticut from Israel. [read post]
30 May 2016, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead In my role as a clinical law professor, I am currently representing a client in juvenile court charged with disorderly conduct, defined as a public disturbance caused by fighting or other violent conduct (among other acts), and... [read post]
30 May 2016, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead In my role as a clinical law professor, I am currently representing a client in juvenile court charged with disorderly conduct, defined as a public disturbance caused by fighting or other violent conduct (among other acts), and... [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead When I arrived in North Carolina over a decade ago to teach and practice law, it was a bit of a culture shock for someone who had rarely been south of the Mason-Dixon line. [read post]
20 Mar 2016, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead Sometimes it takes a tragic and heartrending story of a single human being to move broad public policy. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 7:16 am by Amy Howe
”  At casetext, Tamar Birckhead suggests that, with the ruling, “the Court’s most consistent swing voter has authored an opinion that leaves little room for the state to justify sentencing a juvenile to die in prison. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 4:00 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
By Tamar Birckhead In mid-November, an 8-year-old boy in Birmingham, Alabama, was charged with the murder of a 1-year-old girl named Kelci Lewis. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 4:00 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
By Tamar Birckhead Recently I sat in the main office of a racially-diverse middle school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, waiting to speak with a guidance counselor. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 2:26 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead, University of North Carolina School of Law Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed captured the attention of the public in September when he was arrested during his first weeks at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a homemade... [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 9:47 pm by Alfred Brophy
The image is of a protest at UNC Law last January, courtesy of my colleague Tamar Birckhead. [read post]
7 Aug 2015, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
Professor Tamar Birckhead, along with attorney Katie Rose Guest Pryal, wrote this introduction to a symposium about how vulnerable defendants are treated in the criminal justice system. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 4:00 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
by Tamar Birckhead On November 24, 2004, a thirteen-year-old boy named Taylor M. and several other boys in Ventura County, California, threw rocks at construction equipment owned by to J&S Excavating [J&S]. [read post]