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Teaching in Community
Book chapter

Teaching in Community

Rachel E. López and Susan L. Brooks
Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education, pp 146-164
2024

Abstract

This chapter explores the continuing story of one community lawyering clinic situated in West Philadelphia in the United States. It also represents the second installment in these co-authors' ongoing discussions and reflections about the design and development of the clinic and a follow-up to an article we published together in 2015 when the clinic was still very much in its infancy. This chapter focuses mainly on the interplay between two core objectives of the clinic - teaching law students and promoting community accountability - which are sometimes complementary and at other times seem like competing goals. Specifically, we discuss the complexity of working in a clinic that is deeply committed both to being responsive to a particular community's expressed interests and to fostering the agency and self-direction that will help our students thrive as legal professionals.

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Psychology, Clinical
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