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Troubling Feelings: Moral Anger And Clinical Legal Education, Sarah Buhler
Troubling Feelings: Moral Anger And Clinical Legal Education, Sarah Buhler
Dalhousie Law Journal
Many law students experience strong and sometimes difficult emotions during their time in clinical lawprograms: sadness at clients'stories of trauma, excitement about a victory in court, or anger at the injustices faced by clients. In this article, I focus on the emotion of "moral anger,"or "moral outrage" experienced by lawyers and students in clinicalcontexts, and consider how educators and students might address manifestations of moral anger in clinical law contexts in ways that ignite a critical and social-justice oriented approach to legal practice. By drawing on theoretical insights from the emerging field of critical emotion studies, I argue that a …
Journeys To 20th Street: The Inner City As Critical Pedagogical Space For Legal Education, Sarah Buhler
Journeys To 20th Street: The Inner City As Critical Pedagogical Space For Legal Education, Sarah Buhler
Dalhousie Law Journal
This essay draws on critical geographical theories to propose that the location of clinical legal education programs in inner city space can affect the production of professional identities and ideologies oflaw students. It anchors its analysis in an examination of the clinical law program at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, where students work at a poverty law clinic in Saskatoon's inner city. The paper first turns to a critical examination of law school space, which can function to promote dominant notions about law and legal practice. The author cautions that ifnot navigated attentively, thejourney to inner city space …