Sentences with phrase «clinical law»

The first aspect involves recognition and acknowledgement of moral anger in clinical law contexts.

Thus, acknowledging emotions such as moral outrage in clinical law contexts can represent a challenge to dominant ideas in legal education contexts.

She notes that clinical law supervisors should model a healthy and open approach to emotions.

Many of my students have expressed these feelings of outrage in clinical law seminar discussions or have articulated their feelings in their critical journal reflections about their experiences.

This brief look at the Osgoode MIP and the Windsor Clinical Law program illustrates that students in these programs are developing real, concrete skills that will serve them in their professional careers, whether in the clinical environment or in a more traditional practice.

Tonya Kowalski, Washburn University School of Law, Toward a Pedagogy for Teaching Legal Writing in Law School Clinics, 17 Clinical Law Review 285 (2010).

Clinical law professor Abbe Smith has written specifically about the role of moral outrage in poverty law practice.

Deborah Archer, a visiting professor of clinical law at the New York University School of Law, will take over as acting chairwoman while the Civilian Complaint Review Board conducts a search.

In 1972, through the efforts of the Cahns, Antioch School of Law in Washington, DC, was established as the first clinical law school in the nation broadening access to legal careers and providing free legal services to thousands of District residents.

The Article analyzes a substantial data set of process and outcome measures in unemployment insurance cases to compare clinical law students» use of legal procedures and outcomes to those of experienced attorneys in cases in the same court.

Richard has been involved in developing innovative legal services delivery systems for over 30 years, first as part of the initial working group that created the National Legal Services Program, and then later as Director of the Center for Legal Studies at Antioch Law School in Washington, D.C., the nation's first clinical law school, and later President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal school.

Students at the Windsor Clinical Law program have found that applying reflective practice to their work has helped them to be better advocates for their clients.

I was Editor of the Journal of Professional Legal Education (JPLE) for nine years and have written a large number of papers, including for and presented at multiple conferences (Clinical Law Teachers USA, LawAsia, Continuing Legal Education Administrators Assoc. and The Executive Connection).

Through our nationally recognized Clinical Law Program, our students learn by serving real - life clients and graduate with many of the lawyering skills that are necessary to succeed in the modern legal workplace.

Juergens also focuses on the importance and the emotional implications of «community connections» in clinical law work.

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Here we learn, for example, how law professors hijacked the ABA accreditation process by pushing the academic vs. clinical law school model.

As part of the Constitutional Clinical Law class at the University of Calgary, we studied the constitutionality of the exclusion of farm workers from four statutes in Alberta; the Occupational Health and Safety Act, RSA 2000 c O - 2 [OHSA], Labour Relations Code [LSC], RSA 200 c L - 1, Employment Standards Code, RSA 2000 c E-9 [ESC], and the Workers» Compensation Act, RSA 2000 c W - 15 [WCA].

Thus, the small body of scholarship about the role of emotions in clinical legal education contexts grapples with the highly emotional nature of clinical law practice and the feelings evoked in lawyers and law students as they work on behalf of clients.

She urges clinical law supervisers to maintain and nurture connections with community organizations and activists as a crucial part of their work.

However, in this section I argue that if clinical law students and lawyers fail to critically interrogate our emotional responses in these contexts, we may unwittingly assume that our responses of outrage are sufficient «gauges» of injustice and that our feelings legitimate certain responses on the part of legal professionals.

Emotional intelligence is a key aspect of legal work in clinical contexts, they write, and therefore clinical law supervisors must focus on showing students how to attend to the affective dimensions of the lawyer client relationship.

Biting Off What They Can Chew: Strategies for Involving Law Students in Problem - Solving Beyond Individual Client Representation, 8 Clinical Law Review 405 (2002).

In this article, I focus on the emotion of «moral anger,» or «moral outrage» experienced by lawyers and students in clinical contexts, and consider how educators and students might address manifestations of moral anger in clinical law contexts in ways that ignite a critical and social - justice oriented approach to legal practice.

Through our nationally recognized Clinical Law Program, students learn by serving real - life clients and graduate with the skills needed to succeed in the modern legal environment.

Clinical law teachers may be wary of acknowledging emotions or expressing their own emotional reactions for fear of being identified as being «touchy - feely» or «soft.»

Drawing on the work of Michalinos Zembylas, Sara Ahmed, and others, I propose that clinical law students and teachers should seek to engage in critical «readings» of moral anger — interpretations that acknowledge the role of strong emotions in legal practice, and then interrogate the meaning of these feelings in light of community context, power relations, and history.

Courses at the Windsor Clinical Law program are designed to incorporate reflective practice, helping students to develop their own sense of professional identity and to better understand their relationship with clinical practice.

A critical reading of moral anger in clinical law contexts should, after acknowledging the feeling, examine the ways that feelings of anger may perpetuate dominant power structures in lawyer - client relationships.

That is basically the legal definition from these laws,» Michael Foreman, a clinical law professor and director of Penn State's Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, told ABC News.

So since I was a clinical law professor, I work in unemployment insurance referee courts and those are totally not set out to be run by lawyers.

He has worked as an associate at a large law firm, clerked for a federal judge, represented the indigent for 12 years as a clinical law professor, and now teaches torts and advocacy evidence.

Clinical Law focuses on the different contexts in which clinical law is practised, discusses approaches to building relationships with clients and communities, and explores the future of clinical legal practice.

Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy (Sarah Buhler, Sarah Marsden, Gemma Smyth) is now available from Emond Publishing.

Reflection is taking on a transformational role at another clinical law program in Canada.

(Read more about Windsor's Clinical Law Program here)

In 2013, Professor Gemma Smyth at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law worked with a research team, to examine how to improve student learning at Windsor's Clinical Law program.

Student attorneys work under the direct supervision of faculty members on select cases identified and handled by the Clinical Law Program.

Student attorneys work under the direct supervision of faculty members on select cases handled by the Clinical Law Program.

Students in the Clinical Law Program represent real clients & mediate real cases under close supervision.

Some Thoughts on the Role of Clinical Supervisors at Initial Client Interviews, 14 Clinical Law Review 415 (2008).

Associate Members have full voting rights but do not receive the Clinical Law Review.

Full Members have full voting rights in CLEA and receive the Clinical Law Review via regular mail.

Malpractice Insurance, Clinical Practice Cards & Externship Completion Date All students enrolled in the Law Office Extern Program are required to purchase malpractice insurance through the Clinical Law Program.

For example, Laurel Fletcher and Harvey Weinstein write that clinical law supervisors must acknowledge the highly emotional nature of clinical law work for many students.

Despite the often emotionally charged nature of clinical law experiences, only a small body of clinical law literature concerns itself directly with the role of emotions in clinical legal education (and no Canadian clinical law scholarship focuses specifically upon the role of emotions).

This is crucially important in clinical law contexts.