Government Accountability Clinic

The Government Accountability Project (GAP) Law Clinic is the only off-premises clinic in the School of Law Clinical Program. The Clinic Director works closely with the adjunct professors of GAP who have primary responsibility for the GAP Clinic.

GAP is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) public interest organization that seeks to promote government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. GAP’s lawyers represent government and private employees who speak out against fraud, waste, mismanagement, abuse of authority, environmental dangers, and public health and safety problems. By representing employee-whistleblowers in actions to gain protection against retaliatory firings, demotions, and other harassment, GAP assists the individuals in their efforts to expose governmental and private abuses affecting public health and safety. GAP’s major program initiatives focus on both government and corporate accountability related to nuclear oversight, food and drug safety, worker health and safety, international reform and national security.

For more information please see the clinic’s website.

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