{"id":4343,"date":"2017-07-04T23:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/juvenile-justice-clinic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:48:58","slug":"juvenile-justice-clinic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/juvenile-justice-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Justice Clinic &amp; Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/12\/2025-JJC-Fall-Letter_Accessible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Read the 2025 Alumni Newsletter.<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4342 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401.png\" alt=\"2019-20 Clinic Faculty &amp; Students\" width=\"1600\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-1536x825.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-500x268.png 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-740x397.png 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/01\/IMG-0401-980x526.png 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Juvenile Justice Clinic<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Juvenile Justice Clinic was founded in 1973, a mere six years after the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel and procedural due process to children in its landmark case <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In re Gault<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the first law school-based clinics specializing in children\u2019s issues, the Juvenile Justice Clinic sought to fulfill the mandate of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gault<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> decision, expand the legal rights of children and ensure that children are protected from maltreatment by their parents or the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In its early years, the Clinic handled all types of cases involving children, delinquency, education, and child neglect and abuse among others, and helped to formulate policy at the local and national levels. Over time, the Clinic\u2019s focus narrowed to handling only delinquency cases and education cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Juvenile Justice Initiative<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2015, the faculty of the Juvenile Justice Clinic expanded the reach of the Clinic by establishing the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/juvenile-justice-clinic\/juvenile-justice-initiative\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Initiative<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The Initiative is designed to explore and advance new policies and programs to assist young people and to train juvenile defenders across the nation as the Clinic continues its core mission of educating law students and representing youth accused of crime. Operating at the National, Regional, and Local level with a primary focus on Racial Justice, the mission of the Juvenile Justice Initiative is to advocate for a smaller, better, and more just juvenile legal system in the District of Columbia, the Mid-Atlantic region, and across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Read the 2025 Alumni Newsletter.(This link opens in a new tab) &nbsp; Juvenile Justice Clinic The Juvenile Justice Clinic was founded in 1973, a mere six years after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":721,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-4343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29729,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4343\/revisions\/29729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}