Webster University Department of Legal Studies

03/13/2015

Pleading The WILLOW Project's clients' cases

03/13/2015

Pleading our clients' cases

03/11/2015

Legal Studies Students and friends, read about The WILLOW Project's client, Angel Stewart.

Angel Charlene Stewart stands at the guard station in the visiting room of the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women, twisting...

02/06/2015

"I'm excited, but I'm still pi**ed off. This is very embarrassing." That was Cornealious Michael Anderson III's reaction to the...

02/06/2015

The Community Coalition for Clemency is calling on Governor Jay Nixon to commute the sentences of 14 women who are incarcerated in Missouri prisons....

01/29/2015

Application for LEX Scholarship Deadline February 27,2015
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10/28/2014

We are so proud of Professor Anne Geraghty-Rathert, who delivered an impassioned plea for The WILLOW Project's clients during the Community Coalition for Clemency's press conference.

10/28/2014

Professor Anne Geraghty-Rathert quoted in article.

ST. LOUIS - A former governor and retired state appellate judge are part of a new coalition of Missouri lawyers and law professors asking Gov. Jay Nixon to commute the prison sentences of 14 women, most of whom the group says were victims of domestic abuse.

10/28/2014

A new coalition of Missouri lawyers and law professors is asking Gov. Jay Nixon to commute the prison sentences of 14 women, most of whom it says were victims of domestic violence.

10/24/2014

WILLOW Project

09/28/2014

WILLOW Project

(AP) â€" Undergraduate students at a suburban St. Louis university have begun working as legal advocates for imprisoned domestic violence victims as part of a new school program. The Webster University WILLOW project was formed over the summer by a professor in the school's legal studies department,…