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Community Development Clinic

October 2007 – Under the supervision of Professor David J. Reiss, the Community Development Clinic is representing the national advisory board of the Student Hurricane Network in its incorporation and application for a determination of tax-exempt status. SHN organizes law students to assist residents of areas affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Josie Beets ’08, the founder of Brooklyn Law School’s chapter of SHN and a board member, is working closely with clinic students. They are reviewing the relative benefits and disadvantages of incorporating in Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and Washington, D.C., and are researching the legal implications of raising funds throughout the country.

Students in the clinic are also assisting the New York City Doll & Toy Museum with the formation of an endowment fund, a positive step in the museum’s pursuit of a permanent exhibit space. Working with the executive director, the students are helping to draft the museum’s investment policy and donation contracts.

The Friends and Residents of the Greater Gowanus also asked the clinic for help. FROGG is a grass-roots organization advocating for environmentally sound community planning for the neighborhoods adjacent to the Gowanus Canal. The canal is a notoriously polluted but historically significant former creek in Brooklyn that is under the jurisdiction of overlapping local, state and federal agencies. Various public and private entities are seeking to replace industrial sites along its banks with high-density housing and commercial-use buildings. The clinic is helping FROGG identify all of the entities that own and/or regulate the canal and its immediate surrounding areas so that the organization can better advocate for community input in the planning process.


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