Jason Albright has made the most of his two summers in law school. In summer 2002, he was in Paris, studying at Cornell's Institute of International and Comparative Law at the Sorbonne. This past summer, he split his time between Miami and Philadelphia. For the first half of the summer, Jason clerked with the AIDS Legal Advocacy Project at Legal Services of Greater Miami. This August, Jason was in Philadelphia, where he clerked at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania.

In Miami, Jason worked with clients seeking to prepare estate planning documents and he assisted attorneys with drafting wills, living wills, and power of attorney documents. In Philadelphia, Jason was also involved with interviewing and providing advocacy for clients who have HIV/AIDS. In addition, Jason wrote briefs on the privacy rights of this client group vis-à-vis Federal HIPAA regulations and Pennsylvania's Act 148 of 1998.

Jason was also a research assistant for two professors at the law school over the summer. He did research on first amendment and communications law for Professor Lili Levi and comparative law research for Professor Enrique Fernandez-Barros.

Jason is from Morgantown, West Virginia. As an undergraduate student at Swarthmore College he majored in English and minored in history. During the two-year period between completing his bachelor's degree and embarking on his legal education, Jason lived in Philadelphia where he worked for the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, a nonprofit legal service for economically disadvantaged Pennsylvanians, and as an intellectual property legal assistant at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP.

Now in his third year, Jason is contemplating a graduate degree in labor relations or public health. This fall, he is continuing with a small public health project he started last semester. Safe Sex on the Beach is a weekly volunteer program between the School of Law's Stonewall Legal Alliance and the South Beach AIDS Project (SoBAP). SoBAP supplies the program with condoms and safe sex literature for distribution.

"It's really quite the way to spend an evening. While playing the role of the 'public health presence' at a gay club can be somewhat alienating, it is necessary and sometimes illuminating. What we do doesn't necessarily relate directly to lawyering, but some of the same capacities are involved. We encounter individuals with a number of choices before them, which may or may not materialize, and we empower them with the language and materials necessary to realize the safest choice possible. The people we assist are certainly free to choose to do whatever they wish, but their freedom has been enhanced by our presence."

For information on volunteering, contact Jason at jasonalbright77@yahoo.com.