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Clinique Togo: Changing Legal Practice In One African Nation In Six Days, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Clinique Togo: Changing Legal Practice In One African Nation In Six Days, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
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In this essay, the author looks at the role of the short-term rule of law consultant in a developing country. The setting is Togo in francophone Africa and the State Department's mandate for the consultant is to help establish a pro bono indigent legal aid program with participation by the national bar association and the country's principal law school — in one week's time. Using the device of a daily journal, the author describes (1) the background for the visit, (2) the series of exchanges with his hosts from the US Embassy, bar association and Université de Lomé, (3) the …
Disability Matters: Toward A Law School Clinical Model For Serving Youth With Special Education Needs, Stephen A. Rosenbaum, Patricia A. Massey
Disability Matters: Toward A Law School Clinical Model For Serving Youth With Special Education Needs, Stephen A. Rosenbaum, Patricia A. Massey
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This article examines the role that law school clinics could play in remedying a gap in legal services for youth with special education needs while simultaneously enhancing law students’ awareness and understanding of disabilities and providing students with unique skills. The authors show that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), recently reauthorized by Congress, places the burden of enforcement on parents but leaves these parents — particularly those marginalized by poverty, race, language or immigration status — without sufficient access to legal representation. The authors suggest that this representation gap is aggravated by lawyers’ and law students’ lack of …