University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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We ' re Discovery. ■ With more than a million volumes, UT ' s Tarlton law library is one of the largest academic law libraries in the country. The large size of the school allows students to explore countless areas of legal practice.

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2004 University of Texas School of Law Annual Discovery Resources for research The Tarlton Law Library occupies over 167,000 square feet. The staff numbers over 40 individuals, many with both law degrees and graduate degrees in information sci- ence The Tarlton Law Library was award- ed a $15,375 grant from the Knowl- edge Gateway initiative of the Univer- sity. The grant will fund the digitization of a large segment of the papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark which have been housed in the Law li- brary since 1985. Justice Clark, the only native Texan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is a 1922 graduate. His collection of per- sonal papers from these years has been described by legal historians as one of the most complete for a Supreme Court justice of this era. The papers arrived on the UT campus not long after Clark ' s death in 1977, but weren ' t opened to re- searchers until March 19, 1985. The digitized content from the Clark papers will be the basis of an online re- source called Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court: the Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark. This resource will allow people from around the world to use the Clark files to research seminal cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Mapp v. Ohio and many others. Tobe Liebert, director of special projects at the library, was responsible for writing the successful grant application. Liebert and Michael Widener, the head of spe- cial collections and curator of the Clark papers at the Library, will supervise the digitization project that is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2004. 8 THE STATE OF TEXAS -THE SCHOOL OF LAW

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2004 University of Texas School of Law Annual Responsibility Serving the people of Texas The Law School has an extensive array of clini- cal programs for students, with ten separate clinics covering a wide range of legal is- sues. In December the Juvenile Justice Clinic received a major grant from the Texas Bar Foundation to assist it in its mission to provide high quality legal services to low income children charged with of- fenses in the juvenile justice system and to enhance the ethical and professional practice of law by educating law stu- dents through this representation. We are thrilled to be awarded this grant which enables our law students to continue providing services to children in Travis County, said Pam Sigman, di- rector of the Juvenile Justice Clinic. The Juvenile Justice Clinic, founded in 1975, offers litigation experience to students and exposes them to the opera- tions of the juvenile justice system, by placing them as student attorneys with the Travis County Juvenile Public De- fender. Clients are indigent juveniles, aged 10 to 17, who are charged with criminal offenses ranging from Class B misdemeanors to first degree felonies. Student attorneys are assigned a caseload for which they have primary responsibility under the supervision of an attorney in the public defender ' s of- fice. The student attorneys perform all investigation, interview, discovery, plea bargain and litigation functions on their cases. More than 800 law students have participated in the program providing legal representation on more than 5000 cases. 10 THE STATE OF TEXAS -THE SCHOOL OF LAW .