Global Justice Program Proposal

GLOBAL JUSTICE



"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."  
- Margaret Mead

"The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice."  
- Bryan Stevenson

There has never been a more tumultuous time in legal education.  Applications are at forty-year
lows and law schools are struggling to weather the storm of this identity crisis, seeking to re-brand
themselves in an attempt to appeal to a new generation of law students.

Not Pepperdine.

We know who we are, and under the leadership of newly appointed dean Paul Caron, we remain
focused on our goal of equipping students to lead and empowering them to serve those in greatest
need regardless of where on the planet they might live.  This has been true from Pepperdine Law’s
inception under the thoughtful and committed guidance of its first full-time dean, Ron Phillips.  

"...when that music started we were all dancing like fools together, ECITSUJ
suddenly I could see the humanity in them and the love God has for
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them and I was so grateful for the opportunity to serve them."

- Tiffanie Bittle, Pepperdine Law student intern  (Uganda 2017)

THE LAURE SUDREAU GLOBAL JUSTICE PROGRAM

You, Laure, are among a growing group of Pepperdine Law graduates who have internalized
Pepperdine’s unique mission and embodied these ideals to make a transformative impact on the
world.  Your distinguished legal career, your work on lung cancer research, and your generous
philanthropy, including through establishing the Laure Sudreau Rippe chair, demonstrate that you
know what it means to serve.  It would thus be quite fitting for a truly world-changing program at
your alma mater to proudly bear your name.  As you so aptly noted in your remarks to Pepperdine
Law’s 2012 graduates, “The world you are entering into is no longer about people being the center
of things.  The world you are entering into as lawyers is a world that is about community.  The
world has become a village.”
Pepperdine’s Global Justice Program personifies these truths you identified and was created to
bring justice to the poorest parts of this global village.  At the very center of this work is a group of
thoughtful and committed students who are not content to wait until they graduate to change the
world.

An Invitation to Dream about Changing the World

HISTORY OF PEPPERDINE'S GLOBAL JUSTICE PROGRAM

A quarter century ago, our knowledge about the lamentable conditions in the developing
world largely came from actress Sally Struthers, as she begged us to “send money” to help
the starving children surrounding her in television commercials filmed in India and
Ethiopia.  

The generation of students now attending law school have unprecedented access to real-time information about every corner of
the globe.  Many of them studied abroad in college.  And with the relative ease and affordability of international travel, most have
traveled extensively.  They are no longer satisfied with simply answering the call to “send money” to help those in need – “send me”
is their plea.  They are not interested in being passive observers of human suffering – they are passionate about relieving that
suffering themselves.  They fully understand that while poverty is a profound problem in the developing world, the solution to this
poverty is not merely an infusion of wealth, but rather access to justice.  This yearning for a deep connection with the world is how
Pepperdine’s Global Justice Program was born.

The catalyst for this movement was Professor Janet Kerr.  In February of 2007, Professor Kerr traveled to Bangladesh to present Dr.
Muhammad Yunus of the innovative Grameen Bank with the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, bestowed annually by the
Geffrey H. Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law that Professor Kerr founded directed.

HISTORY of pepperdine's global justice program

Later that month, Pepperdine became the first law school in the country to charter a student chapter of the International Justice
Mission (“IJM”) – a global human rights organization dedicated to delivering justice to the poor.  Soon thereafter, this student
organization held a global justice week and invited speakers from around the country to share the work they were doing.  Two
hundred students attended each presentation.  One of the speakers was Bob Goff, President of Restore International, who operated
a school in the war-torn region of Northern Uganda.  He told the students that he was heading back to Uganda the following month
to host a conference for all the judges in the country, and he invited the Pepperdine students to join him.  At the end of the talk, two
students rushed up to the deans’ suite to meet with Professor Jim Gash, who was then serving as the dean of students, and asked if
they could join Bob in Uganda.  After consulting with Dean Ken Starr, Professor Gash authorized the students to spend their 2007
spring break in Uganda with Bob and Ugandan judges.

During this trip, the students were confronted with the deep challenges facing this corner of the global village and returned to
Malibu determined to help.  They presented a plan for how Pepperdine could serve the Ugandan Judiciary in providing access to
justice in this relatively new democracy.  That summer, three Pepperdine students interned for the Supreme Court, Court of
Appeals, and High Court.

Meanwhile, inspired by Professor Kerr, three other Pepperdine Law students journeyed to Bangladesh that same summer to work
with Grameen Bank and to document its important work in micro-loans.  One of those students was Jay Milbrandt, who returned
from this trip with a plan to establish a new center at Pepperdine that would focus on global justice.  He also resolved to become
the director of this new global program upon his graduation from Pepperdine Law in 2008.

2007 National Conference
Bob Goff, Pepperdine Law students,
American lawyers, and members of

Uganda's Judiciary

history of pepperdine's global justice program

Soon thereafter, in conjunction with the endowment of the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion, & Ethics, the
Global Justice Program (“GJP”) was established and began operating under the umbrella of the Nootbaar Institute.  Under the
leadership of Jay Milbrandt and Dean Starr, GJP began to grow, increasing the number of students interning in Uganda to ten each
summer.

Summer 2008: team of  Pepperdine Summer 2008: student looking
Law s  tudents working with the for case files
Ugandan Judiciary

history of pepperdine's global justice program

In the summer of 2009, Dean Starr traveled with Jay to Uganda to formalize the relationship between GJP and the Ugandan
Judiciary through a Memorandum of Understanding.  Pursuant to this MOU, a Nootbaar Fellowship program was inaugurated
whereby a recent Pepperdine graduate would spend an entire year serving as a mediator in the Ugandan High Court. 
In fact, the first Nootbaar Fellow (2009-10) was the first-ever court-annexed mediator in Uganda.  This one-year Nootbaar
Fellowship Program continues to this day.

2009 MOU
Dean Ken Starr with former Chief Justice
Benjamin Odoki signing the 2009 MOU.

history of pepperdine's global justice program

That summer, two Pepperdine summer interns in Uganda learned about their struggles to provide timely access to justice to
prisoners on pre-trial detention, or what is known as “remand,” who often spent five to ten years in prison waiting for their
opportunity for a court trial.  These staggeringly long remand periods dramatically undermined the efficacy of the judicial system
and caused intolerable overcrowding in the prisons.  These students visited Luzira Upper Prison, where much of the award-winning
“REMAND” documentary currently screening in film festivals around the country was filmed.  They learned that while it was built to
house 600 inmates, more than 3,000 were being held there.  In another large rural prison, there was such insufficient sleeping
space that the prisoners were forced to sleep in rotating eight-hour shifts around the clock.  In response to this, the Pepperdine
interns proposed to the Ugandan Judiciary that they consider adopting a form of plea bargaining to reduce the substantial case
backlog and massive overcrowding in the prison system.

Soon thereafter, GJP’s first prison project took place in a juvenile remand home called Ihungu.  Four Pepperdine graduates,
including GJP’s then-director Jay Milbrandt and its current director, Professor Gash, traveled to Ihungu to assist twenty-one
juveniles waiting for trial, some of whom had been on remand for more than two years.  (This is where Professor Gash first met
Henry, who is featured in “REMAND”).

Four months later in May of 2010, the Principal Judge of Uganda and the Head of the Criminal Division of the High Court led a team
of Ugandan judicial officers to Pepperdine for a benchmarking study on plea bargaining, facilitated by Professor Gash.  During this
training visit, Ugandan judges met with a cadre of Pepperdine Law alums serving as prosecutors, public defenders, judges from both
the state and federal court systems,  members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and the Pepperdine Law faculty.

In the immediate wake of this study tour, the delegation prepared a report for the Chief Justice of Uganda recommending steps
toward the adoption and implementation of plea bargaining in Uganda.  In the summers of 2011 and 2012, Professor Gash led two
more teams of Pepperdine Law graduates to Uganda (including your classmate Eric Hagen, who also returned again in 2014) to
assist juveniles held on pre-trial detention at the Naguru Remand Home in Kampala.





history of pepperdine's global justice program

In January of 2012, Professor Gash and his family accepted the invitation of the Chief Justice to relocate to Uganda in order to assist
in developing and implementing a plea bargaining system for juveniles.  Over the course of Professor Gash’s six months in Uganda, a
plea bargaining system was created, piloted, and implemented in juvenile remand homes.  At the end of this six-month stay,
Professor Gash delivered a report to the Chief Justice charting a path toward implementing plea bargaining into the adult realm.
The Chief Justice accepted the proposal and ordered that it be implemented with all deliberate speed.
In the summer of 2013, Professor Gash led a team of Pepperdine Law alumni and students, as well as Ugandan law students and
lawyers, on a week-long prison project in Katojo Prison, piloting plea bargaining in the adult realm for the first time.  The team met
with more than 70 individual prisoners and prepared their cases for resolution through plea bargaining.

2013 Prison Project
Pepperdine Law students with American
Lawyers and Global Justice Program staff
working alongside Ugandan lawyers in

Uganda's Katojo Prison.

In conjunction with another GJP-sponsored study tour to Pepperdine, the Ugandan Judiciary worked closely with Pepperdine
professors to formulate a set of Plea Bargain Practice Directions that would govern further plea bargaining in Uganda.  In the
summers of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Pepperdine, the Ugandan Judiciary, Ugandan lawyers, and Ugandan law students (working
together in teams) completed four more prison projects (in ten prisons) and prepared more than 700 cases for plea bargaining.

Through the vehicle of these prison projects, Uganda has now rolled out plea bargaining in the High Court to the entire country.
With continuing guidance from and consultation with the GJP, Uganda has now plea bargained more than 10,000 cases in the High
Court.

history of pepperdine's global justice program

In October of 2015, ten leaders in Uganda’s Justice, Law, and Order Sector traveled to Pepperdine to sign an updated MOU (2015
MOU) in order to continue their partnership in the development and implementation of plea bargaining, as well to expand the areas
of collaboration.
Veteran Court of Appeals Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire has publically declared that plea bargaining is the most significant reform of
Uganda’s criminal justice system since the introduction of the country’s Constitution nearly a quarter century ago.

2015 Visit to Pepperdine
Left to Right: President Andrew K. Benton,  Professor Jim Gash, Chief Registrar Paul Gadenya,  Professor Stephanie Blondell,  Professor

Robert Cochran, Madam Ambassador Oliver Wonekha, Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire, Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, Solicitor General
Francis Atooke, Former Dean Deanell Tacha,  Professor Danny DeWalt, Principal Judge Yorokamu Bamwine, Director of Prosectutions

Mike Chibita, Peter Robinson,  Secretary of the Judiciary Dorcus Okalany, Technical Advisor Andrew Khaukha.

Justice Kiryabwire 2015 MOU Signing Chief Justice &  Professor Jim Gash
Left to Right: Justice Kiryabwire,
Principal Judge Yorokamu Bamwine,
Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, Solictor

General Francis Atooke

our staff

Professor Gash is the director of GJP and Jenna DeWalt is the program manager.  Because of other ongoing commitments, neither is
able to devote their full-time efforts to the program.  Professor Gash also serves as Associate Dean for Strategic Planning and External
Relations, and carries a one-half teaching load.  Jenna also serves as the manager for the Nootbaar Institute and devotes about half of
her time to GJP.



our work - IN UGANDA

GJP currently operates under the auspices of Pepperdine’s Nootbaar Institute and continues to deepen and expand its partnership
with Uganda.  In addition to the creation and implementation of plea bargaining discussed above, our projects in Uganda include:

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
Every summer, Pepperdine law students spend nine weeks working with members of the Ugandan Judiciary at all levels, as well as
the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.  They research individual cases and collaborate with Ugandan judicial officials to improve
access to justice for Ugandans.

Matt Linnell, Pepperdine Law
student intern (Uganda, 2017):
“We came to this country to help
and to train, but as cliché as it
sounds, I feel that I have learned

even more than I helped.”

PRISON PROJECTS

For eight years in a row, Pepperdine interns and Pepperdine Law graduates have collaborated with Ugandan law students and
lawyers on the annual prison project.  Each year, the American and Ugandan students and lawyers form teams to work directly with
individual Ugandan prisoners over the course of a week to expedite the prisoners’ cases and to provide them immediate access to
justice.  Over the past several years, the teams have been able to assist more than two hundred prisoners each week.  And as
indicated above, Ugandans have continued this work year round and have resolved more than ten thousand cases through plea
bargaining.

Hannah Gray, Pepperdine Law
student intern (Uganda, 2017):

“This truly taught me about empathy.
 Although I had very little in common
with most of the prisoners I met this
week, I realized that at the end of the
day, we are all human. W  e all make

mistakes and have regrets, and
everyone deserves compassion. I  could

not be more grateful for this
experience.”

our work - IN UGANDA

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

The law school graduate who serves as the Nootbaar Fellow mediates cases in various divisions of the Ugandan High Court for the
year of the fellowship.  The Fellow also works closely with Professor Gash to partner with Pepperdine’s world-renowned Straus
Institute for Dispute Resolution to provide mediation training for members of Uganda’s bench and bar.  As a result of our work,
Uganda has recently implemented mandatory mediation for all civil cases.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING  

Over the past two years, the GJP has developed a partnership with the Washington, D.C. based Human Trafficking Institute to help
combat human trafficking around the world.  Our first project is in Uganda, and we held a two-day national conference earlier this
summer, which has led to a widespread movement in Uganda to eradicate this scourge.

PUBLIC DEFENDER PROJECT

Our work with Uganda in launching plea bargaining has now added a critically needed project to help establish a Public Defender Office.
 As in nearly all developing countries, Uganda does not have a system for providing accused persons access to legal counsel upon arrest,
but rather waits until just before trial to provide representation.  But this applies only to capital offenses; those accused of non-capital
offenses receive no legal counsel.  In partnership with IJM, GJP launched earlier this year a pilot program in a single court to provide
immediate access to legal representation – even for non-capital offenses.



John Napier, Pepperdine Law Graduate & Nootbaar Fellow

our work - sTUDENT INVOLVEMENT

EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN LEADERS

In collaboration with Pepperdine’s Center for Women in Leadership, GJP launched this past summer an effort to equip
and empower Ugandan women to achieve their leadership potential.  The first-ever “Women in Leadership” national
conference assembled nearly two hundred of Uganda’s most influential women to discuss ways to advance this important
cause.  Plans for the next phase are underway.

United States Ambassador to  Professor Jim Gash, Chief Justice
Uganda, Deborah R. Malac and Bart Katureebe, and Professor
Pepperdine's Director for the Bernice Ledbetter
Center for Women in Leadership,

Bernice Ledbetter

CASE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
One of the main challenges Uganda faces in delivering justice to its citizens is a lack of case management infrastructure
in its courts.  In two separate recent study trips to the United States, the Chief Justice and his administrative staff have
been embedded within various American courts to learn best practices in case management.
OTHER TRAINING AT PEPPERDINE
Members of the Ugandan Judiciary and Directorate of Public Prosecutions travel to Pepperdine once or twice a year for
week-long training sessions on plea bargaining, case management, alternative dispute resolution, and other aspects of
justice delivery.  While Uganda provides air transportation and accommodations for these guests, the GJP provides
ground transportation, meals, and other events.

Ugandans visit Pepperdine in 2014
Left: Event at Pepperdine Law with students
Right: Training session with Judge Beverly

Reid O'Connell

our work - sTUDENT INVOLVEMENT

In addition to these ongoing projects in Uganda, the GJP offers students a number of other opportunities to deliver justice
to the developing world.

ADDITIONAL SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

To supplement the ten to twelve internships we have each year in Uganda, our students regularly spend their summers
working for the Chief Justice and Prosecutor General in Rwanda.  We have also established deep and lasting relationships
with other international human rights organizations who routinely hire our students as summer interns: Counsel to
Secure Justice in India, Paz Y Esperanza in South America, International Justice Institute in Indonesia, and International
Justice Mission (Uganda, India, Rwanda, Philippines, and Guatemala).

 Marie Maness, Pepperdine Law student intern
(India, 2017):

“I don’t know what is going to come of this trip,
and I don’t think I will until I’m home and have
time to really reflect on this summer.  What I do

know is that this is changing me in the most
painful and beautiful way, and I could not be
more excited to meet the person I become by the

end of this summer internship.”

SPRING BREAK TRIPS
Each spring, the GJP partners with an international human rights organization who hosts six to eight Pepperdine
students for a ten-day justice or training project.  The past few years have been with the Counsel to Secure Justice in
India.

Streets of Delhi (2017)

Conference at National Law
University, Delhi (2017)
Discussions on Pre-Trial
Detention Processes

our work - sTUDENT INVOLVEMENT

SPEAKERS AND EVENT SERIES
Throughout the year, we host on campus a variety of
speakers and events to educate our faculty, staff, and
students about the justice challenges faced by the
developing world.  For example, GJP will be hosting
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe in October for university-
wide conversation about how this Northern Ugandan
nun stood up to war criminal Joseph Kony and
restored scores of war refugees.  Time Magazine
recently named her one of the 100 most influential
people in the world. 

Danny DeWalt GLOBAL JUSTICE CLASSES
Dean of Students and
The Global Justice Program enhances the curricular
Chief of Staff offerings on campus so that students who are unable
to travel to the developing world can learn from
John Cotton Richmond recognized experts about not only the challenges
Founding Director of the faced in the developing world, but also the ongoing
efforts to address them.  In the fall, Restore
Human Trafficking International President Bob Goff co-teaches with
Institute Pepperdine Professor Danny DeWalt a class called
“Faith, Leadership, and the Practice of Law,” and
Bob Goff Human Trafficking Institute Founding Director John
Founder, Love Does Richmond co-teaches a class (also with Professor
DeWalt) called “Human Trafficking.”  In the spring,
Author IJM CEO Gary Haugen co-teaches with Professor
Gash a class called “Human Rights in the Developing
Gary Haugen World.”
CEO and Founder of
International Justice

Mission

other opportunities

The success of the early joint efforts of the GJP and the Ugandan Judiciary has led to further opportunities to assist Uganda in other
areas of need, both in Uganda and around the globe.  At this point, however, our human and financial resources have reached their
maximum utilization point.  Simply put, we lack the bandwidth to meet the escalating calls for assistance we continue to receive.
We are eager to expand our efforts in Uganda and to respond to the calls for help from Rwanda, India, Guatemala, Zambia, Nigeria,
Ghana, and elsewhere.  We have demonstrated that our efforts can lead to widespread justice reform and poverty alleviation in the
developing world; our students, faculty, and staff stand ready to expand these efforts when we secure the resources to meet these
needs.  A few of these unmet needs for which we have been asked to help are highlighted below.

UGANDA:

With the country’s new plea-bargaining system already making a huge impact on case congestion and prison overcrowding, we
have set our sights on helping Uganda create and implement a Public Defender system that would greatly aid the courts in
processing cases even more efficiently.  With increased access to legal representation, remanded prisoners can begin the plea-
bargaining process earlier, further unburdening the judicial system.  This, in turn, would pave the way for those asserting their
innocence to gain access to a trial years earlier.  The Ugandans have embraced the notion that this new innovation is necessary and
we are partnering with them on a pilot program in a single court just outside the capital city.  The addition of a full-time Pepperdine
fellow in Uganda to work daily and directly with the judiciary to create and implement this system would vastly increase the speed
and efficiency of its implementation.  Additionally, our initial efforts in both combatting human trafficking and empowering women
leaders are poised to broaden and deepen as resources allow.

RWANDA:

A few Pepperdine law students are already traveling to Uganda’s southwestern neighbor each summer to work with prosecutors
and the Chief Justice of Rwanda’s Supreme Court.  In the wake of Uganda’s success in implementing plea bargaining, Rwanda has
decided to embark upon such a system themselves and have asked us for assistance.  Professor Gash has twice traveled to Rwanda
with members of the Ugandan Judiciary to assist the Rwandan Judiciary in its exploratory efforts.  And while these initial meetings
were quite promising, we are unable to offer further assistance without additional human and financial resources.

Kigali, Rwanda (2011) Kigali, Rwanda (2017)
Former Director of the Global Justice Professor Jim Gash along with the Principal
Program Jay Milbrandt and  Former Judge of Uganda and the Technical Advisor to the
Provost of Pepperdine Darryl  Tippens Judiciary of Uganda  visit Chief Justice Rugege of
meet President Kagame of Rwanda. 
Rwanda to discuss the potential of plea
bargaining in the Rwandan Judicial system. 

other opportunities

INDIA:

At the invitation of the leading law school in India, Professor Gash and a contingent of American and Ugandan lawyers and court
officials traveled to India earlier this year to host a two-day conference on plea bargaining.  With its billion-plus population and its
highly inefficient criminal justice system, India faces even steeper challenges than Uganda in reducing case backlog and prison
overcrowding.  Pepperdine has recently received another request for follow-on assistance in envisioning the next steps toward
adopting a full-fledged plea bargaining system in India.  At this point, however, we do not have the human and financial resources to
meaningfully respond to this request.

Delhi, India (2017) Delhi, India (2017)
Left to Right: CSJ Casework Director Shahbaz
Conference on Pre Trial Detention at National
Shervani, Founder of CSJ Jon Derby,
Technical Advisor to the Ugandan Judiciary Law University, Delhi
Left to Right: Professor Jim Gash, Judge Mike
Andrew Khaukha
DiReda, Dr. Bajpai

GUATEMALA:

In the wake of the success of the Ugandan plea bargaining system, Pepperdine was asked by the former Chief Justice of Guatemala
and a group of influential IJM lawyers to assist them in envisioning and crafting plea bargaining reform and expansion efforts in
Guatemala.  Last year, we hosted this team at Pepperdine for a week-long study tour.  Soon after, they drafted proposed legislation,
which is now pending before the Guatemalan legislative branch to increase access to justice in that country.  Additional requests for
assistance in moving this effort forward have led to Skype calls and electronic document review, but we lack the human and
financial resources to do more.

ZAMBIA:

On the 2015 Prison Project, we were joined by an American lawyer practicing law in Zambia.  She returned to Zambia with the goal
of starting a similar program there, but we were spread too thin to offer her any assistance.  In 2016, after a Baylor law professor
joined our Prison Project, we convinced him to explore the idea of Baylor partnering with the Zambian lawyer from the prior year to
create a mirror program in Zambia.  Earlier this year, the Baylor professor traveled to Zambia and plans are now underway for
Baylor to partner with Zambia on a miniature version of what we are doing in Uganda.  While we are thrilled that at least something
will be done, and while we continue to consult with Baylor on their efforts, this was an opportunity missed for us to assist in more
fully meeting the needs of Zambia.

NIGERIA AND GHANA:

Legal officials from both countries have reached out to us for assistance in the past few years after hearing about the successful
ongoing reforms in Uganda, but we have been unable to meaningfully respond because we lack the human and financial resources
to engage with them.

The above are representative of other inquiries we continue to receive along similar lines.

our impact

The extensive assistance GJP provides the poor in the developing world takes on infinitely more meaning when human faces – and
the desperate struggle behind them – take center stage.  One of the first faces the GJP team encountered has left a deep imprint on
the entire endeavor.  His name is Tumusiime Henry, as you may recall from “REMAND.”

Henry was a bright-eyed, clever boy of 15 years with a promising future and supportive family when he was forcefully removed from
school in May of 2008 – arrested and imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.  Nearly two years later, Henry was still being held
in a small one-room, concrete prison with twenty other juveniles, waiting for his day in court.  But now he, along with the prison’s
adult matron, was facing an additional charge for the alleged murder of a fellow inmate.  Then, in early 2010, Henry met the GJP
team on its first prison project.

After listening to the stories of Henry and the other twenty prisoners on remand, the GJP team arranged for a Ugandan lawyer to
take Henry’s case to court (along with the others).  Henry’s initial charge – the charge for which he had been held for two years –
was immediately dismissed due to a complete lack of evidence.  During the trial on his second charge, Henry was never called to
testify, and neither were the other juveniles who would have testified that Henry had nothing to do with the tragic death of Henry’s
fellow prisoner.  Henry’s lawyer, who also represented the adult matron charged alongside him, called only the prison matron to the
stand, placing guilt for the juvenile’s death on Henry.  Henry and the matron were both convicted of murder soon after.

Upon learning of Henry’s fate, Professor Gash immediately returned to Uganda and prepared a pre-sentence report on Henry’s
behalf, which secured Henry’s release on probation.  Professor Gash was later granted permission to argue Henry’s case on appeal
in 2013, becoming the first American ever to appear in Ugandan court.  [picture]  Two years later, Henry was completely exonerated
and is now a fourth-year medical student at Kampala International University.  [pictures of Skype call and Henry in a lab coat]
Henry’s impact on Professor Gash and the GJP was profound, fueling an insatiable desire to ensure there are no more Henrys.



our impact

Henry’s story is just one of thousands whose lives have
been restored, whose families have been reunited, whose
innocence has been established through GJP’s work.  But
GJP’s transformative impact is not limited to those in the
developing world.  The lives and careers of our students
and alumni are being transformed here at home through
their participation in GJP’s work.

Oscar Lopez, Pepperdine Law
student intern (Uganda, 2017):

"There were so many stories from this
internship that affected me deeply.  I
will keep those for myself because I
am still trying to understand what I
just experienced.  I am so blessed and

grateful to have been part of this
amazing program.”

Mike DiReda (Pepperdine Law Class of 1993),

Utah Superior Court Judge who joined the 2016

Prison Project:

“Uganda was a life-changing experience for me
and I couldn’t be more grateful for having had
the opportunity.  I frequently scroll through the

many pictures I took and am overcome with
emotion as I reflect on the friendships I made and

at the great work being done in Uganda under
Jim’s leadership and Jenna’s assistance.  In 22

years of practicing law, I have never felt as
fulfilled professionally as I did during my short

stay in Uganda.”

your impact

Not only would your investment vastly broaden and deepen GJP’s transformative impact itself, but it would establish a distinctive,
meaningful asset with which we could attract the best and brightest law students from not only across the United States but around
the world.  Student surveys of incoming students consistently reveal that more than one in four of our entering students choose
Pepperdine because of our GJP.  This number would take a quantum leap with the expansion of the Program your involvement
would bring.  Moreover, participation in the Program would measurably escalate these students’ interest in careers in public-
interest law, a cause that Pepperdine Law is increasing its efforts to promote.

This transformation aligns perfectly with both the University’s academic mission—to prepare students for lives of purpose, service,
and leadership—and its deeper mission: to freely give some of our considerable blessings back to the world.  When people around
the world ask, “Which law school is having the most profound impact throughout the globe?” the answer should be Pepperdine—and
your generous support will put that ambitious goal entirely within our reach.

GJP’s work is already beginning to be noticed in Europe, as featured in BBC Magazine last year. [picture].  This directly led to a
partnership with the United Kingdom’s Inns of Court, whereby they are now funding a three-month fellowship for practicing
barristers to work with GJP and the Ugandan Judiciary.  Middle Temple has invited Professor Gash to speak about GJP’s work in
November.  Additionally, after reading the BBC Magazine Article, Dutch War Crimes Prosecutor Martin Witteveen contacted
Professor Gash and talked his way into the 2017 Prison Project.  Afterward, he offered this reflection: “This was the most meaningful
week of my forty years of practicing law.  I have witnessed with my own eyes how your project and work benefits so many people
and you can see it in their smiles.  Your involvement of the Ugandans is so crucial.  You really can be proud of your work.”

our needs

We see clearly a path before us that inexorably leads to dramatic improvement in justice systems in developing countries around the
world.  As we have demonstrated in Uganda, this isn’t hyperbole.  The delivery of justice to the world’s poorest allows them to flourish
in the global village in which they live.  We are eager to expand our efforts to meet these needs.

As previously stated, GJP is not endowed, but resides under the umbrella of the Nootbaar Institute, which was itself partially endowed
through a series of charitable gift annuities beginning in 2008.  The corpus of this gifts steadily diminished in size as funds were paid
out to the donor in the form of an annuity each year he continued to live.  By agreement with the donor, a sizable estate gift was
promised that would meet the needs of both the Nootbaar Institute and the GJP in perpetuity.  Unfortunately, that estate gift was
revoked shortly before the passing of the donor at the age of 108, rendering the endowment only a fraction of the size needed to fund
both the Nootbaar Institute and GJP.  What is left falls well short of what is necessary for GJP to continue even its current levels of
activity, let alone expand to the planned transformational levels once the promised estate gift had matured.

With your help, Laure, GJP can be resourced to the level necessary to have a transformative global impact.

The ambitious vision Dean Caron has for Pepperdine Law relies, in part, upon Professor Gash continuing to serve in his current
Associate Dean role where he supervises admissions, alumni, advancement, and strategic initiatives, in addition to continuing to devote
a portion of his time to both teaching and guiding our Global Justice Program efforts.  Accordingly, the vision we have for the Laure
Sudreau Rippe Global Justice Program (“LSRGJP”) would shift Professor Gash’s role to that of Executive Director, where he would
continue to devote at least twenty percent of his time to this Program.  Additionally, Jenna DeWalt would continue to devote at least
half of her time to managing the Program.

We propose to add two additional full-time staff members to our team.  The first would be a new Malibu-based program director who
would work very closely with both Professor Gash and Jenna.  The director’s role would focus on evaluating and implementing, under
Professor Gash’s oversight, (a) new efforts and projects LSRGJP takes on around the world, and (b) preparing grant applications to
provide additional funding for both LSGJP and its projects.  The second staff member would be a Sudreau Rippe Fellow who would be
stationed in Uganda year-round to spearhead the ongoing reforms arising out of the partnership between The LSRGJP and the Ugandan
Judiciary.  The Sudreau Rippe Fellow’s work would focus primarily on three projects: the establishment of a public defender system, the
advancement of women in leadership initiatives, and furtherance of the anti-human trafficking activities.

As indicated in the enclosed budget, an endowment of $9.4 million would provide in perpetuity the necessary annual budget to fund the
work of LSRGJP.  A one-time gift in this amount would allow LSRGJP to immediately move to full staff and full functionality.  In the
alternative, you could potentially opt for a stepped three-year gift cycle that could involve five million in year one, three million in year
two, and two million in year three.  Taking into account the gradually increased staffing and expenditure levels, as well as the endowment
payouts from the initial gifts, this three-year gift cycle would produce the same $9.4 million endowment at the end of the third year.

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We look forward to answering any questions you might have about the establishment of the Laure Sudreau Rippe Global Justice Program.

BUDGET PROPOSAL

Laure Sudreau Rippe Fellow $50,000 Stationed in Uganda (includes salary & benefits)
Global Justice Program Director & Grant Writer $120,000 Stationed in Malibu (includes salary & benefits)
Global Justice Program Manager $40,000 Half of salary & benefits (shared with Nootbaar)
Global Justice Program Executive Director $40,000 Twenty percent of salary & benefits
Global Justice Program Student Summer Stipends $110,000
Annual Travel Expenses $40,000 Half of adjunct faculty pay (shared with Nootbaar)
International Human Rights Classes $10,000
Global Justice Fall and Spring Events $10,000
Hosting of International Judicial Figures $10,000
Training Programs in the Developing World $20,000
Student Spring Break Trip $20,000

TOTAL $470,000