October 5, 2012

Access to Justice Reception: Building Connections & Collaborating with Non-Profit Organizations

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:30:00 PDT

Spotlights national and regional non-profit organizations that further justice and equality and provides an opportunity to increase and facilitate collaborations between non-profit organizations and law faculty.

Break

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:30:00 PDT

Break

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:20:00 PDT

Coffee Break

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:10:00 PDT

Break

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:00:00 PDT

Roundtable Forum

SpearIt et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:40:00 PDT

Concurrent Session 3B. Access to Justice Through Community Collaboration and Clinic Design

Julie Becker et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:30:00 PDT

This session will examine how in-house law school clinics, through community-based collaboration and clinic design, can advance access to justice goals, both inside and outside the academy. The first portion of the presentation will examine how law schools can collaborate with practitioners to advance access to justice. It will describe a "court watch" project launched by the presenters and its impact in both promoting court reform and generating dialogue with students on the needs of low-income litigants. The session will train the audience in effective partnership and data collection models that further access to justice. The second portion will present and examine the role clinics play in addressing the unavailability of legal representation for both traditionally underserved and poor communities, as well as the middle class. The presentation will discuss engaging students in work with a clinic's client population as preparation for post-graduate work with similar clients.

Concurrent Session 3C. Challenging Heterocentricity in the Classroom: Integrating LGBT Perspective

Diane Klein et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:30:00 PDT

The panel highlights how a sometimes subtle heteronormativity pervades the classroom leaving sexual minorities to feel isolated and ignored, and all students to be deprived of an inclusive legal education. The panel discusses how to avoid making heterocentric assumptions both in teaching materials and in law school generally. The panel will also discuss how to effectively integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in the core law school courses and how to deal with potential backlash from some students and colleagues.

Concurrent Session 3D. Countering Potential Student Disengagement, Discomfort, and Disillusionment: Grounding Social Justice Learning within a Socio-Historical Framework

Chitra Aiyar et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:30:00 PDT

Explores the role of lawyers in social justice movements and the ways in which lawyers effectively and ineffectively collaborate with community organizations and other institutions. Presenters will introduce two class designs focusing on the Labor Movement, specifically the collective bargaining power of taxi workers in New York City, and the Immigrant Rights Movement, specifically the Sanctuary movement in the 1980s and 90s that granted immigration relief to thousands of Central Americans. Attendees will also receive participatory exercises for use in the classroom that allow students to recognize their contribution to a broader movement.

Concurrent Session 3A. Servant Leadership Capacities for Social Justice Lawyering

Ellen Hemley et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:30:00 PDT

Describes social justice leadership curricula the presenters have incorporated into their teaching and training over the past several years through courses such as Lawyering for a Just & Humane World (1L elective), Advanced Civil Equal Justice Seminar, Advanced Professionalism & Ethics and a national legal services leadership institute. Presenters will discuss the frameworks used to engage students in learning concrete leadership competencies and skills for the active pursuit of social justice and access to justice.