Clinical Programs
Civil Rights Clinic
During this year-long clinic, second and third year law students will focus on civil rights cases under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 involving police misconduct. Students will become intimately aware of the legal and factual issues that arise in cases involving excessive force, false arrest, illegal search and malicious prosecution by law enforcement officials. Students will receive practical training and get hands on litigation experience working on the Clinic's pending civil rights cases. Students will have the opportunity to interview plaintiffs and witnesses; defend plaintiffs and witnesses at their depositions; draft complaints, legal motions, and discovery requests; appear in court; and in some cases try the case in court.
Contact
Joey MogulJoey Mogul is an adjunct professor for the Civil Rights clinic and an partner at the People's Law Office. She specializes in civil rights cases involving police misconduct, criminal cases brought against individuals engaged in street demonstrations and other forms of First Amendment expression, and capital defense cases. She handles all stages of litigation, from trial preparation through trial, appeal and post-conviction proceedings. She has been actively engaged in the litigation and community organizing around the Chicago Police torture cases, recently presenting these cases to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006. She is one of the attorneys representing the class of 800 individuals wrongfully arrested and detained at an anti-war protest on March 20, 2003. She previously represented Miguel Castillo in post-conviction proceedings overturning his wrongful convicti on for a murder he did not commit and obtaining a par don on the basis of his innocence. She subsequently represented him in his civil wrongful conviction case which settled for $1.2 million.
Crystal Jackson
Administrative Assistant
312.362.8289
cjacks34@depaul.edu
