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January 22, 2024
Challenging discrimination against LGBTQIA+ persons in Texas (2024)
The Clinic partnered with Equality Texas to support their efforts to secure justice and full equality for transgender and LGBTQIA+ people in Texas. During fall 2023, the Clinic prepared a Joint Allegation Letter demonstrating how laws passed by the Texas Legislature violate several human rights such as equality and non-discrimination, privacy, dignity, freedom of expression, […] -
December 4, 2023
Proposing a New UN Special Procedure on Sports and Human Rights (2023)
For the past two semesters, Clinic students have researched the current UN framework for addressing the relationship between human rights and sports. The Clinic published a white paper, A New Referee: The Need for a New Special Procedure on Human Rights and Sports, proposing that the UN create a new special procedure focused on sports […] -
March 2, 2023
For the past three years, Clinic students have researched the way U.S professional sports leagues interact with human rights, with respect to arbitration proceedings, and have just published a report, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Remedying Human Rights Violations in U.S. Professional Sports Leagues, highlighting the current arbitration procedures within the professional sports leagues that deny key stakeholders […] -
January 31, 2023
Securing Memory, Truth, Reparation, and Justice for the Disappeared in Argentina (2022)
During the spring 2022 semester, the Clinic prepared a brief to request the reopening of the case related to the enforced disappearance of Alicia Irene “Moni” Naymark Gabe. Moni was kidnapped by the security forces of Argentina in November 1976 and never seen again. Her case was submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, […] -
January 30, 2023
2022: Clinic students worked closely with Women Enabled International (WEI) and its partners to conduct a needs assessment for Fiji to identify primary barriers that prevent women and young people with disabilities from accessing sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence (GBV) services. This needs assessment included a desk review of relevant laws, policies, surveys, […] -
June 20, 2022
Capital Punishment Clinic Faculty File Clemency Petition for Ramiro Gonzales
On June 20, 2022, Professor Raoul Schonemann and Professor Thea Posel joined with outside counsel Michael C. Gross to file a clemency petition at the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on behalf of Ramiro Gonzales. Mr. Gonzales is scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2022. The clemency petition is pending. Counsel for Mr. […] -
October 4, 2021
Environmental Clinic students worked alongside the Environmental Integrity Project on a citizen suit in federal court against an East Texas wood pellet manufacturer. The manufacturer violated its air permits and illegally emitted hazardous air pollutants, endangering the community and environment surrounding the plant. Clinic students were integral to the trial team and involved in […] -
October 4, 2021
Language Access at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Environmental laws require that the public be given the opportunity to participate in environmental permitting and rulemaking. One of the many barriers Texans face in attempting to engage in environmental advocacy for themselves and their communities is the limited access to information in languages other than English. Clinic students worked with Earthjustice in representing Texas […] -
October 4, 2021
Asociación de Residentes de North Lamar (ARNL), a residents’ association in a mobile home park community in North Austin, organized themselves in 2015 to prevent property neglect, significant rent increases, and evictions from the property owners, who were know nationwide for promoting predatory practices by mobile home park owners. In 2020, during the pandemic, ARNL […]
