Videos tagged with Peggy Nicholson

  • Associate Clinical Professor Crystal Grant, director of the Children's Law Clinic at Duke, and Clinical Professor Peggy Nicholson, supervising attorney for the clinic, talk about the clinic's work, how students get involved, the skills that students learn, and their favorite part about leading the clinic. The clinic provides free legal advice, advocacy, and legal representation to low-income, at-risk children in cases involving special education, school discipline, and children’s disability benefits.

  • Zack Kaplan ('21) describes what it was like to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court and how the experience helped prepare him for future legal work.
    Also appearing: Prof. Jane Wettach and Lecturing Fellow Peggy Nicholson.

  • Professor Jane Wettach, Lecturing Fellow Peggy Nicholson, and Zack Kaplan ('21) discuss the Children's Law Clinic's filing of a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a Petition for Certiorari in a case involving a federal special education issue.

  • Professor Jane Wettach, Lecturing Fellow Peggy Nicholson, and Zack Kaplan ('21) discuss why the Children's Law Clinic decided to submit an amicus brief in Bruno v. Northside and the importance of protecting children with disabilities who move between states.