Special Projects

The Committee occasionally undertakes projects and litigation matters involving important civil rights questions that do not fall squarely within one or more Committee projects.

Special Committee initiatives have focused on issues such as:

Securing meaningful treatment for narcotics addicts
Providing quality childcare for low-income parents
Representing African-American servicemen in challenges to less than honorable military discharges
Challenging the illegal sale of guns in court and providing legal representation to victims of gun violence
Representing victims of police misconduct
Spearheading a national study of hate crime legislation, first released in 1999 and updated in 2006. The study is available upon request.

Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Every summer since 1985, the Committee has sponsored an annual Introduction to Legal Reasoning program, a six-week course for prospective law students who are members of groups traditionally disadvantaged or underrepresented in the practice of law to help them in the transition from college to law school. Since its inception, the program has involved over 1,000 DC area attorneys as instructors and helped over 2,000 students entering law school.

For more information, please contact program director Bob Duncan, Hogan Lovells US LLP.