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County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail
The Patricia Hall Clark Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) in Seattle, Feb. 5, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Cascade PBS)

County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail

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Young detainees report concerns with drinking-water quality, long periods without visitors, lack of substance-abuse treatment and staffing shortages. Professor Kim Ambrose, director of the Race and Justice Clinic, is quoted. (Source: Cascade PBS)

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure
Dean Tamara F. Lawson

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure

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麻豆社区 Law Dean Tamara F. Lawson聽tells the ABA Journal that聽supervised practice "is more closely linked to competence than any 100 multiple-choice questions will ever be."

Cite Unseen
Cite Unsee: Reckoningwith anti-LGBTQ+ court cases and future proofing the law for the next cases.

Cite Unseen

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On June 12, learn the history of anti-LGBTQ+ jurisprudence in Washington courts and hear about current and future issues affecting case law in LGBTQ+ rights from 麻豆社区 Law Professor Peter Nicolas and other distinguished panelists.

Legal Understandings of Disability Rights vs. Disability Justice
A decorate W symbol for the University of Washington sitting on a desk against an out-of-focus background.

Legal Understandings of Disability Rights vs. Disability Justice

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Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Pendo joins the conversation on the Access 麻豆社区 podcast to explore the differences and intersections between the Disability Rights and Disability Justice movements.

Three-Minute Legal Talks: Reclassifying Cannabis as a Schedule III Substance
Karen Boxx

Three-Minute Legal Talks: Reclassifying Cannabis as a Schedule III Substance

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Professor of Law Karen Boxx covers the legal implications of cannabis鈥檚 reclassification as a Schedule III substance, including business, consumer and medical implications.