Event Title
Concurrent Session 1A. Occupy Wall Street: Legal Rights and Clinical Representations
Location
Room 302
Start Date
5-10-2012 1:10 PM
End Date
5-10-2012 2:10 PM
Description
Starting from a common belief in the importance of promoting access to justice and remedying rights violations, two very different clinical responses illustrate the challenges and opportunities of teaching in the context of an emerging social justice movement. What different advocacy and justice options are available to and pursued by criminal justice, human rights, economic justice, or constitutional clinics? What can be gained through collaborative inter-clinic or cross-clinic projects? This panel will explore the pedagogical choices and assumptions underlying course structures, project choices, the selection of clients, and the power dynamic between student and teacher.
Concurrent Session 1A. Occupy Wall Street: Legal Rights and Clinical Representations
Room 302
Starting from a common belief in the importance of promoting access to justice and remedying rights violations, two very different clinical responses illustrate the challenges and opportunities of teaching in the context of an emerging social justice movement. What different advocacy and justice options are available to and pursued by criminal justice, human rights, economic justice, or constitutional clinics? What can be gained through collaborative inter-clinic or cross-clinic projects? This panel will explore the pedagogical choices and assumptions underlying course structures, project choices, the selection of clients, and the power dynamic between student and teacher.