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Announcing the 2020 Public Interest Law Association Fellows

This summer, 21 students were named PILA fellows and will pursue projects associated with public interest organizations, legal services offices, social service agencies, public defender officers, nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies and tribal entities.

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Bubacarr Drammeh to be Graduate Student Speaker at 2020 Commencement

Bubacarr Drammeh, a former State Attorney in The Gambia, will be the Graduate student speaker for the University of Washington School of Law Graduate class of 2020. (Source: The Gambia Times)

States' Automated Systems Are Trapping Citizens in Bureaucratic Nightmares With Their Lives on the Line (Prof. Calo quoted)
May 28, 2020 | Source: Time
'That can go very wrong': The role of information and technology during COVID-19 (Prof. Calo quoted)
May 18, 2020 | Source: The Daily
Getting it right: States struggle with contact tracing push (Prof. Calo quoted)
May 17, 2020 | Source: Politico
The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Said quoted)
May 15, 2020 | Source: Gizmodo

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