This panel brings
together legal writing faculty and clinicians who collaborate to make social
justice issues central to legal education. One panelist uses "canned"
legal writing problems that raise social justice issues and introduce students
to the work of lawyers who have accomplished social change. A legal writing
professor and a clinical professor from a second school collaborate on
simulation exercises that bring social justice issues into the legal writing
classroom, assisting students in professional identity development and exposing
them to family and juvenile law issues. The legal writing director and clinical
director from a third school describe how their collaborations that bring
issues from the law clinic or legal nonprofits into the 1L legal writing
classes led to collaborative efforts to improve students' ability to transfer
their learning from the first-year through clinical and externship experiences
and beyond. A legal writing professor from a fourth school will describe
upper-level writing projects that engage 2L and 3L students in providing
assistance to social justice partners. This panel describes the widely
differing ways we bring social justice into our classrooms, offers key
"lessons learned" over years of doing this work, and engages the
audience about how they might apply these lessons.
Business
meeting at program conclusion.