Proyecto ACCESO is promoting the rule of law throughout the Americas.

The ACCESO team works with all the sectors in the administration of justice. We are judges, prosecutors, public defenders, legal educators, and journalists. We are building new systems for conflict resolution that are fair, efficient and transparent.

By training legal innovators, together we are srengthening the rule of law in our Hemisphere.

 

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Internship Program in Chile


Three law students from California Western School of Law - Amanda Cortese, Christopher Carneal, and Isaac “Zack” Dye – began their internships in Chile in late August 2005. 

Chris is interning with the newly installed office of the Public Defenders in downtown Santiago while Amanda is interning at a law firm in upscale Providencia, working on human rights cases.  Zack has been interning at the Ministry of Justice office for the Coordination of the Criminal Procedure Reform, run by the German Government’s Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ), located right beside Chile’s Presidential Palace “La Moneda”. 

This is the second year of California Western’s Latin American Internship Initiative with Proyecto ACCESO.  Funded in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Avery-Tsui Foundation and others, ACCESO continues to create opportunities to U.S. and Latin American lawyers, judges and law students to understand each other’s legal system and legal culture. 

Part of the internship program includes a course with Professor James Cooper on “Topics in Legal Reform” with lectures and a number of site visits to public institutions, law offices, and Villa Grimaldi, the site of a former torture center in the days of the Pinochet regime in Chile.

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