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A Persistent Critique: Constructing Clients’ Stories, Carolyn Grose
A Persistent Critique: Constructing Clients’ Stories, Carolyn Grose
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Drawing on narrative, post-colonial, clinical and other critical theory, this article explores the role and necessity of critical reflection by lawyers in the construction of clients' stories in representation. In particular, the piece is framed by the experiences of transgender clients and their student attorneys. The piece begins by examining the "problem of representation" - the challenge of seeing and hearing clients' stories, particularly when those stories do not fit in to our understanding of how the world works. It moves on to describe first the "official stories" that govern how the legal system treats transgender people and second how …
Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century Teaching Legal Ethics: Iv. Developing Specialized Ethics Courses, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce
Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century Teaching Legal Ethics: Iv. Developing Specialized Ethics Courses, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce
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The teaching of professional responsibility in U.S. law schools is entering a new age. A relative newcomer to the traditional curriculum, professional responsibility has struggled over the past twenty-one years to establish its intellectual legitimacy. It has evolved from a cramped course on the codes of lawyer conduct adopted by the American Bar Association ("ABA") to an expansive course on the law of lawyering. The premise of this essay is that professional responsibility has matured as a subject matter to the point where a new genre of courses should join the pervasive method and the traditional survey course. The richness …