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December 16, 2024
Parole Reform in Texas: Recommendations to Achieve Forward-Looking Justice 2024
A 2024 report by the UT Law Civil Rights Clinic and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law explores how changes to parole could help reduce incarceration rates in Texas. Texas’ incarceration rate surpasses that of the United States, even as studies show how a high incarceration rate harms communities, rather than reducing […] -
December 16, 2024
Bound Knowledge: The Impact of Book Bans on Incarcerated Women and LGBTQIA+ People in Texas 2024
The UT Law Civil Rights Clinic, in partnership with the Civil Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University School of Law and Lioness Justice Impacted Alliance, published a report in 2024 revealing how Texas’ restrictions on certain books and material in Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities impact people who are incarcerated, particularly women and LGBTQ+ […] -
August 8, 2024
Adequately funded replacement reserves play a critical role in the long-term financial and physical viability of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties but are often inadequate to address a property’s capital needs. This report examines Texas’ policies related to replacement reserves at LIHTC properties and how these policies could be improved to help ensure […] -
June 25, 2024
Capital Punishment Clinic client Ramiro Gonzales was sentenced to death in 2006 for the 2001 murder of Bridget Townsend. Clinical Professors Raoul Schonemann and Thea Posel have worked on Ramiro’s case since he was first scheduled for execution in 2016. For more information: https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/ramiro-gonzales/ -
April 25, 2024
Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees
Students in the Fall 2023 Housing Policy Clinic submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission for the Commission’s Proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees. Students wrote about the application of the proposed rule to address the prolific use of unfair and deceptive fees in the rental housing industry. The students offered evidence […] -
April 22, 2024
This report examines the laws underlying the City’s historic landmark property tax exemption program and how the program could be improved to advance the City’s equity goals. The City of Austin’s property tax exemption program for historic properties has been criticized for being unfair and inequitable, by primarily benefitting affluent property owners and neighborhoods in […] -
April 9, 2024
Students with the Immigration Clinic prepared a report on behalf of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration critiquing the Department of Homeland Security’s widespread electronic monitoring of migrants through ankle monitors and the SmartLINK phone app. As of December 2023, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was electronically monitoring more than 190,000 migrants. A 2022 […] -
March 29, 2024
This report examines the troubling and growing array of fees that tenants are confronting in the Texas rental housing market. These charges, also known as “junk fees,” obscure the true price of housing and prevent comparison shopping; they impose financial strains on tenants and create barriers to affordable housing access. The report includes five categories […] -
March 7, 2024
Mama Kitchen Press is a start-up publishing company that provides traditional publishing services to authors whose work is centered on personal stories. ECDC students assisted MKP with contracts, intellectual property, and choice of entity. -
March 7, 2024
Ready Up Aquatics is a woman-owned business that provides complete pool management services and swim lesson in Central Texas. ECDC students assisted Ready Up Aquatics with entity formation, customer contracts, and personnel policies.
