This session asks how
individual law school faculty members can innovate in our own classrooms to
create future attorneys who are thinking critically about access to justice and
playing a role in solving the access to justice crisis in our country. The
program will begin with a roundtable discussion of recent experiments
incorporating access to justice in the classroom, including:
• A civil procedure
course where the entire first year class developed and implemented civil access
to justice programs in their community;
• A clinic that
engaged a state civil access to justice commission as a client to develop
statewide priorities and programs;
• A seminar that
partnered with a local court system to develop judicial training and litigant
self-help materials; and
• A new access to
justice center that combines research and student service with a course focusing
on law reform and access to justice.
A facilitated
discussion will follow that will allow audience members to discuss and develop
their own classroom experiments, including ideas to incorporate access to
justice in core and first year courses. Attendees will leave this session with
new ideas for incorporating access to justice in their own classrooms and tools
to operationalize these innovations in their own teaching.