Event Title
Concurrent Session 7B. Teaching Identity and Understanding Community-Based Lawyering in Transactional and Non-Litigation Practices
Location
Room 309
Start Date
6-10-2012 3:00 PM
End Date
6-10-2012 4:00 PM
Description
Cross-cultural competence is a critical component of client-centered and community-based advocacy. This panel will discuss the need to more deliberately integrate issues of identity and cross-cultural lawyering into the transactional and non-litigation space. Specifically, the panel will explore the importance of and challenges surrounding teaching these issues in clinical, externship and trial advocacy programs. Additionally, the panel will examine how transactional, community-based practices can expand our notions of social justice and provide opportunities for our clients’ generative learning. The presentation will include a mock class presentation, teaching recommendations, and an overview of the benefits, risks and challenges of embracing how identity and community influence experiential learning and, ultimately, legal practice.
Concurrent Session 7B. Teaching Identity and Understanding Community-Based Lawyering in Transactional and Non-Litigation Practices
Room 309
Cross-cultural competence is a critical component of client-centered and community-based advocacy. This panel will discuss the need to more deliberately integrate issues of identity and cross-cultural lawyering into the transactional and non-litigation space. Specifically, the panel will explore the importance of and challenges surrounding teaching these issues in clinical, externship and trial advocacy programs. Additionally, the panel will examine how transactional, community-based practices can expand our notions of social justice and provide opportunities for our clients’ generative learning. The presentation will include a mock class presentation, teaching recommendations, and an overview of the benefits, risks and challenges of embracing how identity and community influence experiential learning and, ultimately, legal practice.