Journal article
New Directions in Clinical Legal Education: Conversations on "Community Lawyering": The Newest (Oldest) Wave in Clinical Legal Education
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Vol.28, pp.359-457
01 Jan 2008
Abstract
Introduction As clinical legal educators, we have become keenly aware in recent years of a resurgence of interest in community lawyering among ourselves and many of our clinical colleagues. Community lawyering is increasingly identified as a goal in clinical legal education, and community lawyering clinics are growing in number across the country. We refer to this movement as a resurgence of interest, because community lawyering and community lawyering clinics are certainly not entirely new, though their form and content may be shifting to respond to changing economic and social conditions. Indeed, the mention of this movement conjures thoughts of longstanding community-based law school clinics started three or more decades ago in this country and around the world. 1 Like the legal services programs from which a host of early clinical law teachers came, several law school clinics were initially located on urban streets in client communities. Ghettoized urban neighborhoods, the focus of many anti-poverty initiatives, became home to storefront legal services offices which served as partners and models for the law school clinical programs that proliferated in their wake. 2 In this era, the concept of a community lawyer as someone who works for the poor and disempowered in the context of broader community goals came into its own. 3 In this Article, we will explore the pedagogical and professional challenges and rewards of community lawyering and clinical legal education. The authors are clinical law faculty who self-identify as community lawyers and teachers of community lawyering clinics. We ...
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- Title
- New Directions in Clinical Legal Education: Conversations on "Community Lawyering": The Newest (Oldest) Wave in Clinical Legal Education
- Creators
- Karen TokarzNancy L. CookSusan BrooksBrenda Bratton Blom
- Publication Details
- Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Vol.28, pp.359-457
- Publisher
- Washington University Washington University Journal of Law & PolicyUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020638382204721