JIFS Victories

Sarah Cook ’23 had been a clinical student at the Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic (JIFS) for less than a month, but that was enough time for her to make a significant impact on the wellbeing of her client and demonstrate that she has the potential to be a force in the California judicial system.

Angelenos like to think of themselves as dwelling in a reasonably enlightened city, governed by fairness and the rule of law. But Christopher Hawthorne '00 has watched — first as a Loyola Law School student, then as an attorney, and more recently as a clinical professor at LLS — something far more baleful.