• Environmental & Land Use Clinical Externship
    Type: Course
  • Judicial Clinical Externship Program
    Type: Course
  • Judicial Clinical Externship Program
    Type: Course
  • Judicial Clinical Externship Program
    Type: Course
  • New York Pro Bono Scholars Program
    Type: Course
  • Health Law Leader
    Alyssa Boss ’97 graduated with RWU Law’s second law school class and she hasn’t stopped learning since. As Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Care New England Health System (CNE), Boss finds challenges every day on the job in keeping up with changes in health law. “It’s just rapidly evolving,” she says. “Regulations are changing all the time.” A network of hospital buildings sits…
    Type: Story
  • Defending the Defenseless
    When lower-income victims of domestic violence escape their abusive relationships, they often face a secondary barrage of battles – legal proceedings involving divorce, visitation and custody – without adequate funds or professional resources. What can be done?  Enter Brook Ashley ’08, who has dedicated her professional life to ending violence against women. This February, she launched a new…
    Type: Story
  • Keeping ’Em Honest
    Charles “Chad” Edgar ’04 is making serious headway in the DOJ’s battle to stop identity-theft tax-refund fraud by improving enforcement and prosecution. The former U.S. Army JAG officer now prosecutes tax crimes for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Stolen identity tax refund fraud is a multibillion-dollar problem today,” says Edgar, a CPA who has prosecuted scores cases with the DOJ’s Tax…
    Type: Story
  • Making an Impact
    As a staff attorney with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Curtis Pouliot-Alvarez ’15 orally presents on cases to three-member circuit judge panels, recommending a disposition, answering the judges’ legal and factual questions, and pointing to any alternative resolutions. It’s just the latest stop for the tireless RWU Law alum, who last summer finished an 18-month stint…
    Type: Story
  • Saving the Bay
    Nicole Rohr should teach a master class in time management. In addition to her busy life as a law student, the 3L holds a full-time position as assistant director of the Coastal Institute in Narragansett, R.I., while also serving as chair of the Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative, and as science advisor to the Napatree Conservation Area in Watch Hill, R.I.  With a Ph.D. in…
    Type: Story