Movement Lawyering
SLN #: 15882Course Prefix: LAW-791
Course Section: 1027
Credit Hours: 2
Instructor(s): Nair
Course Books: View List of Books
Course Description:
The seminar aims to push students to forge new understandings of how they can meaningfully effect change and engage with social movements as lawyers by examining strategies, tactics, tools, advantages, and challenges of movement lawyering. It will compare the strengths and drawbacks of movement lawyering with traditional lawyering models in theory and in practice. The course will also discuss both contemporary and historical social movements and the role lawyers played in advancing and/or undermining those movements particularly movements to advance racial, immigrant, trans, and gender justice. It will also delve into ethical dilemmas that arise when lawyers collaborate with social movements. Finally, the course will also offer students strategies and tools to prepare them to be future movement lawyers.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 2
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: Yes
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 24
Final Exam Given: No
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: Paper Required
Participation Points: 10% of grade is participation
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Teaching Method: In Person
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.