UW Law provides students with real-world legal experience assisting clients and communities. Building on foundational lawyering skills learned in the first year, students work on real cases, transactions or projects for academic credit supervised by experienced faculty members.
Clinic students may advocate for clients in litigation, negotiate or mediate disputes, advise entrepreneurs and companies, develop policy by drafting legislation and getting it enacted, comment on regulations or gather information, and write reports for legislative bodies.
Clinical Law Program
(206) 543-3434
clinics@uw.edu
Since its inception, the Innocence Project Northwest has exonerated 14 Washington women and men, including Ted Bradford. Teams of law school students, staff and volunteer legal counsel fought for Bradford’s exoneration for eight hard years.
Students help legislators identify, write and implement policy for rapidly advancing technology
Scholarship, publications and presentations by clinic faculty
Students successfully save more than 100 years of incarceration for two individuals
Students learn why the criminal justice system makes errors, possibilities for reform
