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January 30, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

#UBLawResponds Wraps Trip Five, and Promises Continued Service

When naming our clinic (the University at Buffalo’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic), the #UBLawResponds team was focused on

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January 29, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

“Resiliency is the Governance of Uncertainty”

A powerful statement was made at the opening of the 2019 RISE Conference, a conference dedicated to Transforming University Engagement

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January 29, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

Being Part of Restoring Puerto Rico’s Food Resilience as a Student Attorney

I just returned this weekend from our #UBLawResponds service-learning trip as a student attorney in the University at Buffalo School

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January 29, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

Reflections of a Pro Bono Staff Attorney for #UBLawResponds: Commitment to Puerto Rico’s Resilience

By Octavio Villegas, Staff Attorney for the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic I

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January 28, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

The Chance to Connect with the Puerto Rican Community as a Ph.D. student joining #UBLawResponds in January 2020

By Alex Bakke, University at Buffalo PhD student in Spanish Literature & Language Upon arriving in Puerto Rico to join the

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January 28, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

Shaky Spaces: January 2020 Observations on Camps in Southern Puerto Rico

The recent clusters of earthquakes along the southern coast of Puerto Rico have added immense chaos to an already unstable

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January 27, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

A Reflection on Puerto Rico’s Home Pride & Community Activism

On the first night in Puerto Rico I found myself dancing, singing, and parading through the streets of Old San

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January 23, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

A New Normal: “Please Note the Emergency Exit, in Case It Becomes Necessary”

As our team entered the beautiful legal clinic, one of the very first things the Director said to us was

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January 21, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

2 Issues, 1 Solution – Power in Puerto Rico

On January 19, 2020, the University at Buffalo School of Law Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic, #UBLawResponds, drove to

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January 21, 2020 Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic

#UBLawResponds Is Feeling the Earthquakes, Standing With #PuertoRico

Most of our #UBLawResponds team felt the first earthquake. We were doing a short refresher on trauma-informed lawyering and service

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If you would like to support our work, please consider donating to our #UBLawResponds Service Learning Fund. We need your  support so that we can provide these important service learning trips to our students to legal representation to those in need across the globe. The students are donating their time and hard work in support of this important work, and we need your help to make this trip possible for them financially.

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  • Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic
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