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Coming in Fall 2025

The following clinical programs will be offered in the 2025–26 academic year.

Animal Law Clinic

The Animal Law Clinic, co-led by professors Rajesh K. Reddy and Joyce Tischler, serves as a comprehensive training ground for JD and Animal Law LLM students interested in policy, administrative, and transactional work that benefits animals through the representation of clients.

OPB Government Transparency

The Public Records and Government Transparency Project, a partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting and one of the first of its kind in the country, will train teams of L&C law students in the complexities of Oregon’s public records system and law. Read the story

Transformative Immigration Law Project

Starting in the spring semester of 2026, the Transformative Immigration Law Project will engage students in studying how law changes—and the role of lawyers and other actors and institutions in initiating, motivating, supporting, and resisting that change.

At a historical moment in which immigration is at the forefront of national policy, the course offers real-world experience in immigration law in the context of instruction about transformative change in law and policy and takes a comprehensive approach to the issue, encouraging students to think in novel ways about how law evolves and the roles that lawyers can play in its evolution.

The course will connect students with the work of the Equity Corps of Oregon (ECO), Oregon’s acclaimed universal representation program for Oregonians in removal proceedings, as well as with an internationally renowned immigration lawyer at the Innovation Law Lab on removal defense cases through ECO.

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