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Homelessness And The Use Of Reality To Enrich The Experience Of Law School, Frank Trinity
Homelessness And The Use Of Reality To Enrich The Experience Of Law School, Frank Trinity
Cleveland State Law Review
When I arrived in New Haven in 1985 1 was shocked. I would go running near the campus and find myself in the middle of public housing projects. This was the first time I ever saw housing projects. I grew up in New Jersey suburbs and had never before seen a housing project. Now I was confronted with people on street comers asking for money. This experience was very upsetting. About the same time as this was occurring, I was attending first semester classes; my brain was being twisted in these courses in ways I never expected. As the semester …
Nurturing The Impulse For Justice, Lynne Henderson
Nurturing The Impulse For Justice, Lynne Henderson
Cleveland State Law Review
By dwelling on doctrine and appellate case analysis we too often lose sight of the underlying assumptions behind the law and the social consequences of the law. By doing so we fail to give students even a glimmer of understanding as to what they need to know to fight injustice effectively. We spend much classroom time rationalizing the real and evading difficult questions of social justice. We do almost nothing to help our students develop any sense of justice or injustice or ways of identifying how the law produces justice and injustice. Let me work through an example of how …