{"id":795,"date":"2010-01-15T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=795"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:53:56","slug":"the-fifth-annual-working-in-the-public-interest-law-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Fifth Annual <\/strong><strong>Working in the Public Interest <\/strong><strong>Law Conference\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 26-27, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>University of Georgia School of Law<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration is FREE for all students!\u00a0 Pre-Registration materials and other useful information are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.uga.edu\/wipi\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">available online<\/a>. General Registration (electronic) will open in January 2010. If you have questions, please <a href=\"mailto:wipiconference@gmail.com\">email<\/a> the conference organizers.\u00a0\u00a0The conference will be held at the University of Georgia School of Law.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Free housing is available for student attendees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Topics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prison Reform:\u00a0 <\/strong>Disentanglement from the Concrete Jungle &#8211; Issues Facing Former Inmates Struggling to Reintegrate into Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Justice:\u00a0 <\/strong>Not In My Backyard &#8211; The Disproportionate Impact of Pollution on Minority and Impoverished Communities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advocacy &amp; Crossover Kids:\u00a0 <\/strong>When a Child Never Had a Chance &#8211; The Pipeline Carrying Children From Foster Care to Juvenile Delinquency<\/p>\n<p><strong>LGBT:\u00a0 <\/strong>Don&#8217;t Be a Hater! &#8211; When Hate Crimes Are Directed At Members of the LGBT Community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration:\u00a0 <\/strong>The Selective Melting Pot &#8211; Balancing the Competing Interests of our Nation and our Immigrants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Interest versus Private Practice: <\/strong>Why it Doesn\u2019t Have to Be a Choice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education Advocacy in Public Interest:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lessons to be Learned<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Representation of the Public Interest:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Is Seeing Really Believing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CLE credits available for a small registration fee.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fifth Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference\u00a0\u00a0 February 26-27, 2010 \u00a0University of Georgia School of Law Registration is FREE for all students!\u00a0 Pre-Registration materials and other useful information are currently available online. General Registration (electronic) will open in January 2010. If you have questions, please email the conference organizers.\u00a0\u00a0The conference will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,11,29,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-alumni","category-ll-m-info","category-networking-opportunities","category-public-interest-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}