{"id":1259,"date":"2017-05-11T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2021-11-23T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:07:53","slug":"national-award-justice-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/2017\/05\/11\/national-award-justice-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"A national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0their successful effort to end <a href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/double-punishment\/\">Philadelphia&#8217;s practice of billing\u00a0parents for cost of their child&#8217;s incarceration<\/a>, Prof. Colleen Shanahan and her students have received the 2017 Clinical Legal Education Association Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project.\u00a0The &#8220;Double Punishment&#8221; project, conducted by<a href=\"https:\/\/ysrp.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1261 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/AALS-award-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/AALS-award-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/AALS-award-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/AALS-award-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/AALS-award.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/clinics\/justice-lab-clinic\/\">Justice Lab<\/a> on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ysrp.org\/\">Youth Sentencing &amp; Reentry Project<\/a>, was chosen through a competitive process involving\u00a0clinical work from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Shanahan accepted the award at the national meeting of the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Schools in Denver this week.\u00a0Hundreds of\u00a0clinicians were present at the ceremony, which recognized Justice Lab and the Sheller Center. 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