The Carole Landis Foundation has partnered with the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law's Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE Institute) to support the initial Justice for Victims Clinical Fellowship in its academic second year, 2017-2018.

The School of Law launched the Institute to address Commercial Sexual Exploitation during the 2015-2016 academic year. The CSE Institute seeks to educate and provide technical assistance to those who respond to commercial sexual exploitation in Pennsylvania and to promote victim-centered, multidisciplinary collaboration.  

Beginning in the fall of 2016, the Institute will begin providing direct legal services to victims and survivors through the establishment of the new Victims for Justice Clinical Fellowship.

CSE Institute activities include legal research and technical assistance on Pennsylvania, federal and other state civil and criminal laws; policy education; law enforcement agency training; direct legal services; victim recovery, and Safe Harbor for sexually-exploited children (SB 851), victim-centered criminal justice reform support.

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(Left to Right) Associate Dean Michelle M. Dempsey, JD, Co-founder of the CSE; Sarah K. Robinson, JD, Clinical Fellow; Carole Landis, MSS, LCSW; Shea M. Rhodes, JD, Director and Co-Founder of the CSE Institute.