Event Title
Concurrent Session 2C. Legal Research and Writing for Justice
Location
Room 402
Start Date
5-10-2012 2:20 PM
End Date
5-10-2012 3:20 PM
Description
The panel will examine two different approaches to using a legal writing platform to expose students to public interest work and help expand access to justice. The first model focuses on how to develop a non-profit collaborative program in the first-year writing course. Panel members will discuss the pedagogical justification for integrating a non-profit collaboration in the first year writing curriculum and the potential benefits and problems in implementing a collaboration. The panel will examine Seattle University Law School’s existing program and the University of New Hampshire School of Law’s current efforts to start a collaborative program in 2013. The second model focuses on the use of a voluntary student-directed public interest writing and research program outside of a traditional classroom venue and credit-based instructional framework. Using Florida Coastal School of Law’s experience in developing a voluntary student research bureau in 2012, the panel will discuss how the concept was developed into an operating program and how the program worked its first year.
Concurrent Session 2C. Legal Research and Writing for Justice
Room 402
The panel will examine two different approaches to using a legal writing platform to expose students to public interest work and help expand access to justice. The first model focuses on how to develop a non-profit collaborative program in the first-year writing course. Panel members will discuss the pedagogical justification for integrating a non-profit collaboration in the first year writing curriculum and the potential benefits and problems in implementing a collaboration. The panel will examine Seattle University Law School’s existing program and the University of New Hampshire School of Law’s current efforts to start a collaborative program in 2013. The second model focuses on the use of a voluntary student-directed public interest writing and research program outside of a traditional classroom venue and credit-based instructional framework. Using Florida Coastal School of Law’s experience in developing a voluntary student research bureau in 2012, the panel will discuss how the concept was developed into an operating program and how the program worked its first year.