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Carol Turowski

Co-Director, Innocence & Justice Clinic
Adjunct Professor of Law

Phone: 336.758.6111
Email: turowsc@wfu.edu
Location: Worrell 3328

Professor Carol Turowski is the co-director of the law school's Innocence and Justice Clinic, which reviews claims of innocence by inmates to determine whether there is DNA or other evidence that could lead to the inmate's exoneration and release from prison. Clinic Co-Director Mark Rabil is an assistant capital defender in Forsyth County whose zealous advocacy led to the release and exoneration of Darryl Hunt after 19 years of incarceration. Turowski is also an advisor to the Wake Innocence Project, a student organization dedicated to educating the community about miscarriages of justice. Her teaching interests include consumer protection, trial practice and professional responsibility. Turowski is an experienced clinical legal educator who taught at Hofstra University School of Law and Case Western Reserve University before coming to Wake Forest. She began her legal career more than 20 years ago as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society of New York, the premier public defender office in the country. There she tried more than a dozen felony cases and was eventually promoted to the position of supervising attorney of the Training Office. In 1997, she received her master's degree in teaching from Columbia University's Teachers College where she was invited to join Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society. She is licensed to practice law in North Carolina, New York and Ohio and was recently admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.