The UW Law School’s third annual Community Justice Week (CJW) in February 2006, sponsored by the Law School’s Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), raised nearly $1000 for summer grants provided to students working in public interest positions. The weeklong series of events focused on public service as a vital component of the legal profession.
Kerry Burchill 2L, CJW committee chair, attributed the week’s success to extensive participation by the approximately 14 law student organizations that planned the events.
Highlights of the week’s activities included:
- Discussions addressing: Wisconsin's only Supermax Prison, the proposed same-sex marriage amendment, community corrections, loan repayment assistance available to students pursuing public interest careers, and animal law issues
- Film screenings on a wide variety of global community justice issues
- An information fair on the clinical programs and community nonprofit opportunities available to students
- Two fundraisers: an international potluck lunch and the ever-popular chili cook off
- A coordinated trip in which law students served a meal at a local homeless shelter
- A winter clothing and personal item drive to benefit the Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin.
Anyone wishing to extend the spirit of Community Justice Week may make a donation to the Law School's Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), to help meet the goal of matching the generous donation of $1000 from the Public Interest Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin. For more information, contact Kerry Burchill at kburchill@wisc.edu.
Submitted by on March 30, 2006
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