This panel will
highlight how legal writing professors can incorporate "Access to
Justice" in their legal writing problems in three different way. The panel
will discuss the opportunity to use first-year persuasive writing problem drawn
from real cases and involving timely social issues affecting access to justice
are likely to build intrinsic motivation—an elusive but key component for high
academic achievement. This panel will also discuss how, by designing coursework
intentionally and explicitly embedding issues of gender, race, and privilege,
legal educators can guide students to focus attention on the human and justice
dimensions of professional legal writing. The panel will also include the
discussion of an exercise that law faculty can use to integrate real-world
research into the law school curriculum to give students the opportunity to
collaborate, serve a pro bono
organization, and understand the role they can play in closing the legal aid
gap.