Carrie Hempel
Co-Director, Community & Economic Development Clinic
Expertise:
Clinical Legal Education, post-conviction practice, criminal law, and gender and the law
Background:
Carrie Hempel is a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic at UCI Law. She also was UCI Law's founding Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Service Learning.
Professor Hempel previously taught at the University of Southern California School of Law, where she was a directing attorney for the Post-Conviction Justice Project, a clinical program that provides legal assistance to indigent prisoners at state and federal correctional institutions in habeas corpus, parole and civil rights cases.
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- Carrie L. Hempel and Robert A. Solomon, Teaching Transactional Law by Preserving Affordable Housing (June 9, 2023). California Legal History, Vol. 17, 2022, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2023-24
- Carrie Hempel, Battered and Convicted: One State's Efforts to Provide Effective Relief, 25 Criminal Justice (2011).
- Carrie Hempel & Caroll Seron, An Innovative Approach to Legal Education and the Founding of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, in The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice (Scott L. Cummings ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011).
- May 2, 2016:
Panelist, “Constructing a Blueprint for Choosing Clients in Community and Economic Development Clinics,” 39th Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Baltimore - Feb. 22, 2014:
Moderator, “Rights and Access to Physical Medical Services,” Prisoners’ Access to Justice: Exploring Legal, Medical, and Educational Rights, UCI Law